Mattie Carver’s engagement party must have marked the beginning of her own personal fairy tale. However when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her eager quest to find him rips her from small-town existence and reveals a shattering truth: magic is definitely real-and Ben can be hooked. It isn’t the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy nearly beyond human being endurance.

Determined to find out who required Ben and why, about Reliquary Mattie immerses herself inside a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face using the darkly appealing Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is usually a reliquary, someone with the rare capability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon skill to assist his smuggling operations. Today, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld night clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is certainly on a rescue objective. With Asa by her part, she’ll face not only the supernatural causes arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she worries she can’t resist.