This is book one of the Nightwraith series and tells the story of Liza and Cian. Liza is a Nightwraith, half demon and half Koldun Earth witch, an experiment by her mother, the Queen of Mist, in the Shadow world, with their father a full blown Koldun witch. Each of her sisters, Lena and Lana, have different strengths and use their abilities in vastly different manners. One is a necromancer and runs a bar, using her zombies as staff and pulling in punters from both the human and supernatural worlds, whilst the other is a highly paid assassin, killing the worst of the worst. Liva has refused to give in to her demon side, much to her mother’s annoyance, preferring to make a living running an antiques shop, with a side line of helping people by using her rare material empath skills with inanimate objects, to read its history and past. This time, a customer comes to her shop, needing her empath powers to find out who killed his brother. But he is a Fae, the absolute enemy of demons for all time. He knew to ask for her by her father’s surname, Liva Kasun, not her mother’s, Liva Ambrose, and thus didn’t realise that she was half demon. He clearly doesn’t want to work with her, but she is his only chance to find out what happened to his brother, but he is also holding a lot of secrets, some of which he should really let her know, if she is to truly help him in his quest!
It doesn’t help that Cian is a fierce but very sexy warrior Fae and a fine example of man, that her body want her to play with. Shame her mind and his won’t go down that road. There is far more to the death of his brother and Cian’s need to find his killers, there is also a very powerful Fae artifact missing and with it, the balance of power within the Fae Courts, which could have an impact on the human realm as well. He is far from an ordinary Fae and Liva can feel and even see the power emanating from him. He is a temptation she can’t give in to and one that he doesn’t want any part of, due to her demon side! They find a clue in the cabin his brother was renting, as he looked for a powerful being to hold the artifact he had. Unfortunately, the Fire Court are defying the Earth Court of which Cian is part of, trying to vie for power and control of all of the Fae realm. He realises they must be responsible for his brother’s death, but he needs proof from Liva before he can take them out, or he will cause a war within the Fae realm and further. Liva finds herself having to give in to her demon side, allowing both parts of her begin to combine at last, providing her with more magical power than she thought it would. Cian has altered his opinion of Liva, the longer they are together and a moment occurs, which means each would do anything for the other. They have to break into a highly secure supernatural auction, to find the object stolen from his brother, but others have the same idea and they have to fight their way out of there.
Liva will have to face her mother, after she finds out what Liva is up to and who she is working for, needing something from her that will of course, be at a high bargaining cost to her. With it, Liva will become the very Nightwraith she never imagined, having always hidden her demon side away and only living in the light. She will come to realise that she needs to accept both the light and the dark and be the person she was made to be. She had no choice in what she was born as and if people have problems with that, then they can lump it! She and Cian get closer together and there is some hot and steamy scenes towards the end, so beware. There are further books in the series that explore the other two sisters, but it was nice to meet each of them and have a glimpse into their lives. A dangerous endeavour for Liva, working for the enemy, on the most important job of her life. One that will change the role of her future and allow her to find her bonded mate for life. A slow starter, that soon cracks up the pace and the danger involved for the main characters. I received an ARC copy of the book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.