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Burn For Me – Ilona Andrews
3***

Book one in the Hidden Legacies series takes place in Houston, Texas, but it’s not the Houston we know. In this world, magic rules, and the families who have the most magic are the most powerful.

Nevada Baylor runs Baylor Investigative Agency, her family’s firm, mostly focusing on cheating spouses and small-time insurance fraud. But now the firm that holds their mortgage has a very specific and highly dangerous task for her, and she has to take the case or lose her business (and home). She’s supposed to bring in Adam Pierce, a Prime (the highest rank of magic user), whose special skill is his ability to set anyone and anything on fire. To do so, she joins forces with Connor “Mad” Rogan, a billionaire Prime with equally devastating and dangerous powers.

The authors (Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym of a husband-and-wife writing team) give us a pretty complicated plot with enough action to keep the reader turning pages. Some time had to be spent building the world of magic and how the various forms are manifested. We also had to meet the rest of Nevada’s family: her Mom (formerly Sgt Baylor, an expert sniper), Grandma (whose talent is all things mechanical), cousin Bern (a computer wiz), and her younger, teenaged sisters, Arabella and Catalina. There are some interesting side characters including “Bug,” who lives in “the Swamp” and is even more tech savvy than Bern). The romantic tension between Nevada and Rogan added to the fun.

Though I really hate cliffhangers that “force” the reader to continue a series, I might consider reading more in this series.


LINK to my review