Dangerous Magic Series

If you need a vital ingredient found for your dangerous occult practice, Russell Bristow is your man, no questions asked. But when he's offered a job so dark that even he turns it down, it gets his only family held hostage. Now he has no choice but to locate a young woman marked for a sacrifice. He knows it will leave a scar on his soul, but nothing could prepare him for the toll it would take on his heart.   Zoe King won't be used as currency to pay her sorcerer father's debt to a demon. She'll fight for her life with everything she's got, even if it's a formidable love hex. When Russell is blackmailed into kidnapping Zoe, they soon find themselves wondering if their feelings for each other are real, or just a magical illusion.   Russell's past is coming back to haunt him, and there's a demon with a claim on Zoe's soul. Hellfire is on the horizon, and there may be no escape.

They were the ones who bound the magic. Now, they are the ones who must set it free. Lifetimes ago, five priestesses cast a spell to protect the power of every woman who would come after them—sealing away the goddess's magic to keep it from those who sought to steal it. Sisters of the Red Thread, they whispered the spell in the dark of night, an incantation of forgotten power. But protection came at a cost: their own lives.  Now, their bodies are humming with the stirrings of something ancient. They weren't supposed to remember, but the goddess is stirring from her slumber—and so is their magic.  The only problem: they are not the only ones who know. A secretive group has been waiting—watching—for their awakening, intent on siphoning their magic before they can reclaim it. This society has surveilled the women over lifetimes, the leader intent on keeping his power.  Their darkness is about to discover just how dangerous a woman's magic can be. The women must find each other, unlock the ritual buried in their blood, and awaken the goddess once more. If they fail, history will repeat itself. If they succeed… the world will never be the same.

Alice didn't think much of Dax when she first met him. Now he's helping her do a magical deep cleanse on a collection of dark objects, and they're working well together. Mostly. Plus, he's actually kind of sweet sometimes, not the rich playboy brat she thought he was at first. A look here, a kiss there, who knows what might happen?   But then his obsession with a cursed violin invites trouble.   The kind of trouble that moves in.   In to Dax.     Now Dax is possessed – sort of. A demon is after the violin's original owner – maybe. And Alice? She's just trying to keep everything from crashing down on them – including her own dark past.