The romance between Catalina and Alessandro is a thrilling match between equals, and both must share their past hurts and reveal their vulnerabilities on the path to love. Catalina and Alessandro’s discovery of an unsettling, sentient magical presence living in the swamp is frightening not only as an individual enemy, but also for what it reveals about how recklessly humans pursue power. This time, she’s determined to find the murderer without damaging her heart.

They worked together on a previous case, but she was humiliated and depressed when he left her just as she was about to reveal her feelings for him. Catalina has no doubt she’s up to the task of investigating the murder however, she’s furious when Linus insists she accept the protection of Alessandro Sagredo, a powerful assassin and the only man Catalina has ever loved. The dangerous monsters she encountered are connected to the work Felix and a consortium of powerful houses were doing to reclaim a dangerous magic-rich swamp on prime Houston real estate. After Catalina is attacked by a series of magically fueled monsters that crawled out of a nearby swamp, her boss, Linus Duncan, the Deputy of Texas, assigns her to investigate the murder of Felix Morton. Even though she’s in her early 20s, she’s the capable manager of her family’s investigation business, the powerful head of her family’s emerging magical house, and the covert Deputy Warden for the state of Texas. Two powerful magic users forge an uneasy alliance while investigating a murder.Ĭatalina Baylor is no stranger to duty and responsibility, as we learned in Andrews' first book about her, Sapphire Flames (2019).

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