Magic Slays - Daniels Kate: Book 5

Zusatztext Praise for Ilona Andrews and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Kate Daniels Novels “Ilona Andrews's books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs! #1 New York Times bestselling author  “Kate is a great kick-ass heroine.”— Locus “One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy...Ilona Andrews delivers only the best.”—Jeaniene Frost! New York Times bestselling author “One of the best urban fantasy series ever written!”— RT Book Reviews “Andrews's edgy series stands apart.”— Library Journal “Urban fantasy absolutely does not get much better than this.”—SF Signal “I can’t think of another series so consistent! so well written! so full of wit and action and drama that always manages to give me exactly what I’m needing.”—Fiction Vixen Informationen zum Autor Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team, Gordon and Ilona. They currently reside in Texas with their two children and numerous dogs and cats. The couple are the #1  New York Times  and  USA Today  bestselling authors of the Kate Daniels and Kate Daniels World novels as well as The Edge and Hidden Legacy series. They also write the Innkeeper Chronicles series, which they post as a free weekly serial. For a complete list of their books, fun extras, and Innkeeper installments, please visit their website at www.ilona-andrews.com. Klappentext In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series! war-plagued Atlanta has never been so deadly...Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job. Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid! but she's still knee-deep in paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone to hire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging than she thought it would be-now that the Order is disparaging her good name. Plus! many potential clients are afraid of getting on the bad side of the Beast Lord! who just happens to be Kate's mate. So when Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with a vampire on the loose! Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work. But it turns out that this is not an isolated incident! and Kate needs to get to the bottom of it-fast! or the city and everyone dear to her may pay the ultimate price... Prologue The ringing of the phone jerked me from my sleep. I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud. Ow. A blond head popped over the side of the bed and a familiar male voice asked, "Are you okay down there?" Curran. The Beast Lord was in my bed. No, wait a minute, I didn´t have a bed, because my insane aunt had destroyed my apartment. I was mated to the Beast Lord, which meant I was in the Keep, in Curran´s rooms and in his bed. Our bed. Which was four feet high. Right. "Kate?" "I´m fine." "Would you like me to install one of those child playground slides for you?" I flipped him off and picked up the phone. "Yes?" "Good morning, Consort," a female voice said. Consort? That was new. Usually the shapeshifters called me Alpha or Lady, and occasionally Mate. Being called Mate ranked somewhere between drinking sour milk and getting a root canal on my list of Things I Hated, so most people had learned to avoid that one. "I have Assistant Principal Parker on the line. He says it´s urgent." Julie. "I´ll take it." Julie was my ward. Nine months ago she "hired" me to find her missing mother. We found her mother´s body instead, being eaten by Celtic sea demons who had decided to pop up in the middle of Atlanta and resurrect a wannabe god. It didn´t go well for the demons. It didn´t go well for Julie either, and I took her in, the way Greg, my now deceased g...

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Praise for Ilona Andrews and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Kate Daniels Novels

Ilona Andrews's books are guaranteed good reads. Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author 

Kate is a great kick-ass heroine. Locus

One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy...Ilona Andrews delivers only the best. Jeaniene Frost, New York Times bestselling author

One of the best urban fantasy series ever written! RT Book Reviews

Andrews's edgy series stands apart. Library Journal

Urban fantasy absolutely does not get much better than this. SF Signal

I can t think of another series so consistent, so well written, so full of wit and action and drama that always manages to give me exactly what I m needing. Fiction Vixen

Product details

• Authors: Illona Andrews, Ilona Andrews
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2011
• EAN: 9780441020423
• ISBN: 978-0-441-02042-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Ace Books; Kate Daniels; Stadt der Finsternis; Kate Daniels; Stadt der Finsternis
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy