Demon Riding Shotgun
by L.R. Braden
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Possessed by a demon since she was eleven years old, Mira Fuentes maintains a fragile alliance with the snarky soul who shares her body. Together they hunt down unstable Rifters-- demon-controlled humans bent on causing chaos in the mortal realm. But when a routine hunt leads to a powerful Rifter with plans for Baltimore, Mira quickly finds herself in over her head and at the top of the city's Most Wanted.
Recently retired from the PTF after losing his partner, Ty Williams now works for the Baltimore PD and keeps his distance from cases involving magic. But when a person dies of clearly magical causes and the PTF doesn't have any agents to spare, Ty is the closest thing the department has to an expert. Saddled with a new partner he doesn't want and a mountain of self-doubt, it's his job to track down a suspect who looks suspiciously like the one-night-stand he brought home from the bar last night.
Mira will have to set her trust issues aside and enlist the help of a man determined to uncover her secrets if she hopes to learn the identity of the demon's host and prevent the human race from becoming meat puppets for the denizens of the Rift.
On COURTING DARKNESS: "This book was a fantastic second installment to the Magicsmith series… Truly brilliant writing!"--Richelle Rodarte, NetGalley Reviewer
"The plot was engrossing, fascinating, and action-filled."--Pam Guynn, NetGalley Reviewer on Faerie Forged
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Demon Riding Shotgun
By L.R. Braden
excerpt
What happened?
A buzzing silence filled Mira’s
head.
She opened her eyes. Tears leaked
down her cheeks, but at least she could see again. She rolled onto her knees
and tried to straighten. Nausea surged through her.
You okay?
The demon didn’t respond.
She glanced at the woman on the
floor beside her. The nightgown around the knife was no longer cream-colored.
Bright red seeped and spread from the point of impact.
What the . . .?
The woman’s eyes fluttered open. Her
gaze darted around the room until it came to rest on Mira. She opened her
mouth, but all that came out was a trickle of blood near the corner of her
lips. She lifted one hand a fraction of an inch, reaching for Mira.
Mira grasped the woman’s hand with
both of hers. “I’m sorry, I . . .” She shook her head.
Blood was pooling around the woman
now, inching closer to Mira.
Where are you? She screamed in her head, willing the demon to answer. Say something!
She reached for her magic but found
only a sickening emptiness. Somehow, all the energy had been drained out of
this area, severing her from both her magic and her demon.
Mira tore her hands free from the
dying woman and struggled to her feet. Nausea twisted her stomach once again,
but she choked it back. She had to move. She clutched her chest, groping for
the comfort of her missing saint necklace as she fought against the abyss of
despair. She was alone, without magic, without protection.
“Saint Jude . . . when hopeless
seems the task,” she mumbled. “Please, help me.”
The woman on the floor made a
choked, gurgling sound. Her outstretched hand dropped. Blood droplets splashed
and speckled Mira’s shoe.
“Freeze!”
Mira twisted toward the attic
access. The world spun. She staggered a step away from the dead woman.
“I said freeze!”
Mira stared at the gun pointed at
her. It wasn’t a normal gun. The barrel was too long and narrow. Holding the
gun were a pair of steady hands. Hands she remembered. Hands that had been both
strong and gentle as they roamed her body.
She looked into the face of her demon’s lover.
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L.R. Braden is the bestselling author of the Magicsmith urban fantasy series, the standalone novel Demon Riding Shotgun, and several works of short fiction. Her writing has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Sci-fi/Fantasy, the First Horizon Award for debut authors, and the Imadjinn Award for Best Urban Fantasy (twice). She was also honored to be a finalist for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2021 Writer of the Year award. She and her family live in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, where she spends her time writing, playing, and weaving metal into intricate chain mail jewelry that she sells in her Etsy shop.
A good book for winter reading.
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