Artificial Magic

Artificial Magic is Stacey Bowen’s second adventure as a Vampire and Daggerwoman in The Merged Worlds series.
While anonymity would be her primary protection, when a dangerous situation develops at Dawn’s, where she works as a server, she takes action to protect her friends and co-workers from out of control magic. Using her daggers she’s able to break a spell where a group of college boys use some very strange magic to take control of the room and those within it. Stacey gains a new ally just when she needs one. With the police getting involved it doesn't take long for the detective in charge of the case to learn of her involvement and realize her identity.
As similar incidents crop up throughout the city, in public and private venues, the police detective asks Stacey’s help. Police witches and wizards have not been able to break the spell as easily as the Daggerwoman. Helping the police, Stacey has Nash move her through the shadows to cut to the heart of the incidents as they crop up throughout the city.
Stacey's friend, Pepper Paull, a very knowledgeable witch can't identify the magic. All she can say is that it does not conform to the normal frequencies of magic. The daggers are still the only thing to break the spell.
When helping the police raid one of the distributors she runs into a little more than she can handle and Angie has to don her own mask to help out. The police find the case moving from the city of Baltimore and even beyond the borders of the Consolidated States… Stacey believes that she has to take them down but she doesn’t go alone.
During this time Stacey’s relationship with Nash undergoes some subtle changes. Angie goes through some very serious changes and some very important characters move into Stacey’s life.
Even though the compound of those behind the Artificial magic is destroyed it doesn't mean they're all gone.
Someone comes seeking retribution.
Can Stacey stand against a nearly invisible enemy?
Will her new gifts and allies be enough to carry the day?
Are there really conspiracies on every side or is the vampire being a pessimist?