Sarah Fine is one of my favorite authors. With Asa by her side, she’ll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can’t resist. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.ĭetermined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real-and Ben is hooked. Mareena got this book for me because she knew how much I had enjoyed True Crime, which is also by Andrew Klavan.Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. I had some trouble following the plot and must say honestly that I'm still not entirely sure about certain parts of the story. The smitten Richard follows Sophia through the labyrinth of her family's madness and their involvement in Nazi art thefts, down a trail formed by ghost stories more chilling then any that Richard could create for his movies.This book was very good in parts, but I have to say that it was not one of my favorite books. When Richard is first introduced to beautiful heiress Sophia Endering, he finds himself helplessly in love with her.But Sophia is as dangerous to herself as she is for those who love her - for she has an almost unstoppable death wish. The owner and editor is herself a curiosity and opens up a whole new world to Richard - a world of strange but true hauntings, ghost hunts and spirit worship. Part vacation, part research, he finds renewed purpose in working at a magazine which features weird phenomena - Bizarre. When American horror film director Richard Storm first arrives in London, he has his own secret mission.

Reliquary by sarah fine