Evil speaks the words we wish most to hear. For the price of a loaf of bread, young Jen spins her spells in the squalid marketplaces of the City's slums. But when her father sells her to the wizard Barras for gold, Jen finds herself bound to a man who holds her utterly in his power. So begin five years of reluctant apprenticeship, while Jen schemes to open a gateway to the Otherworlds, her only hope of escaping Barras' binding. Yet she remains blind to another, more profound binding-the abuse she suffered as a girl that poisons her soul and allows a dark and ancient entity housed in a...

Something is devouring wizards. And Amethyst Rey has just discovered she's next on the menu. Amethyst is being stalked. Odd gifts appear on her doorstep. A black Mustang lurks in front of her house. But when the car-minus a driver-snatches her off her Albuquerque street, Amethyst is plunged into a hidden world of magic where no one can be trusted and nobody is quite what they seem. As she struggles to hold on to her normal life, an ancient spirit pursues her, warning of magic grown toxic and dangerously unstable by the disappearance of wizards. A homeless man mumbles about a predator...

Wizards are back and selling their services to the highest bidder. Amethyst Rey has just been outed as a wizard, and now she's on the auction block, too-whether she wants to be or not. Amethyst just wants to live quietly as a stained glass artist. But when she and Talys, her familiar, confront another wizard who's meddling in local New Mexico politics, she lands herself square in the sights of the shadowy figure called Ragman, a headhunter who supplies wizards to corporate clients. When the game of cat and mouse with Ragman and his hired thugs turns deadly, Amethyst is forced to...

Amethyst Rey has a big problem. Jas Harker, wizard and corporate magnate, wants her to marry him. Sure, he's rich, he's charming, and he's handsome enough to make Amethyst dizzy. But when she first came into her own powers two years ago, Jas led her on, used his magic on her, and hurt her more than she wants to admit. Amethyst learned her lesson. Don't get close. And never, ever drop her guard. But it's not easy to keep fighting her attraction to him, and Jas has been working hard to convince her that he made a mistake. Amethyst has to decide if the magic they share-literally and...