The Blood Ledger

In the Crossing, magic is not sacred. It is property. Every spell, miracle, curse, god and supernatural bond can be bought, licensed, traded or stolen. Evelina Avern is an elegant sorceress with an unsettling talent for desire, persuasion and magic. Finian Byrne is a red-haired assassin with a warm, lilting cadence, an old Gaelic accent, a dry sense of humor, and an inconvenient habit of surviving things that should have killed him. They have been hired to steal the Blood Ledger, an ancient artifact containing the original contracts that gave the Crossing ownership over the foundations of magic itself. They distrust each other. They need each other. And each secretly intends to betray the other when the heist is over. Neither of them plans on falling in love.