Deadly Force

by S.B. Logue

The old world is ending.
She's what it becomes.

I used to be nobody. A student loan, a job I hated, a quiet cup of tea on New Year's Eve. Now the whole world is running out of magic, and everyone who wants to save it, or hoard it, has decided the answer is me.

Merlin isn't hiding anymore. He wants what I carry, more than anyone ever has, and he's willing to burn everything down to take it, starting with the people I love. Connor is gone. Dermot is watching my back. And the stranger teaching me to fight turns out to know far more about what I am than he's ever let on.

So I'm learning fast, pulling on kinds of magic I didn't know I could hold, whether Connor likes it or not. Because I'm done being hunted, done being the helpless girl who needed saving.

Merlin has waited an eternity to find me. He thinks that makes me a prize to be taken.

He's about to learn how wrong he is.

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2012

About the author

S.B. Logue has been building worlds since she was old enough to roll a d20, first around kitchen tables in Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, then in the margins of an English degree she earned mostly so she could keep reading fantasy on purpose.

She writes fantasy and romantasy: intricate magic systems, strong women, powerful romance, and neurodivergent characters who get to be the heroes of their own stories. Her books return to found family, the slow work of figuring out who you are, and the push and pull of power, both magical and human.

She lives on Canada's west coast and writes from the Shawffice, a she-shed full of Lego builds plants (because she can't keep the real ones alive), with a dog underfoot and a kid never far behind.