Spells & Bites

Some words were buried for a reason.

In a shuttered New Orleans shop where the candles dim for the wrong customers, a witch named Elara Arcanum is handed a parchment she was never meant to read - planted by a stranger whose face won't stay in her memory. One forbidden syllable, spoken aloud by a frightened girl, and a thousand-year silence breaks.

Two thousand miles away, at a family dinner beneath a New Mexico moon that isn't full, Ronan Reyes feels his own body turn against him. The Reyes have spent six generations and four hundred years hiding what they are. Tonight the hiding ends - because the oldest curse ever aimed at wolf-blood has just reached across an ocean and closed its hand around their hearts.

The treaty is broken. The wolves are coming. And in a Moscow club that smells of absinthe and appetite, a two-hundred-year-old queen the world forgot decides it's time to be remembered.

Witch. Wolf. Vampire. Three powers, one table, and a war no one meant to start - set in motion by a hand no one can name.

Magic always has a cost. This time, everyone pays.