By the Horns
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- 99,00 kr
Publisher Description
In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman with a deadly magic secret needs the help of the minotaur she’s trying to forget in the sizzling sequel to Ruby Dixon's New York Times bestseller Bull Moon Rising.
Gwenna has always considered herself a normal person. A former servant, she wants nothing more than to land a steady job with the Royal Artifactual Guild so she can make some steady coin to send home to her mother. She's not special. She's certainly not a necromancer. That would be impossible, given how necromancing (or any 'mancing) is forbidden upon penalty of death. So if the dead keep talking to her? Well, she's going to keep on ignoring them. They're not going to stand in the way of her dreams.
Also standing in her way? One big, arrogant, far-too-flirty Taurian named Raptor. They slept together once, and now he wants more . . . but she doesn’t have time for that. Her focus is on being a fledgling, a trainee for the Royal Artifactual Guild. But Raptor won't go away. He's on a secret mission for the guild to find an artifact thief.
Problem is, he thinks the thief is Gwenna.
How can she convince Raptor that he's got the wrong girl when all the signs point to her? And how do you tell a Taurian you can't date him because you hear dead people and it might cost you your life?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dixon packs her sizzling second Royal Artifactual Guild romantasy (after Bull Moon Rising) with snark, sensuality, and mystery. Gwenna has a magical secret: she has the forbidden ability to communicate with the dead. She attempts to ignore this power while training to join the Royal Artifactual Guild, having failed her first attempt. Her status as a "repeater" means she's forced to take on odd cleaning jobs on behalf of the guild. When she's sent to tidy the room of a minotaur named Raptor, recently demoted from full guild member back to fledge, he mistakes her for a sex worker, leading to a steamy encounter. Raptor longs to find a woman who can accept every bit of him and sees that in Gwenna, though she denies her feelings. When artifacts go missing and Gwenna's fellow repeaters turn up murdered, she and Raptor work together to solve the mystery. Along the way, their explosive chemistry becomes undeniable. Dixon scorches the pages with intense and frequent erotic scenes but still finds time for ample character development and intrigue. Overflowing with both heart and heat, this is sure to please series fans.
