Bøker av Kim McDougall

Critter wrangler rule #5: Just because something smells dead, doesn't mean it can't kill you. Sometimes you just need to hug your dervish.Like when he protects you from brownies.Or goes down into the scary basement with you because he's proud to be your apprentice. Or when he saves the world.Kyra Greene, pest controller to the extraordinary, is back with a new adventure! A Guardian is dead. Fae are missing. And someone has let a golem loose in town. Ride along with Kyra Greene, the only pest controller qualified to deal with the strange and wonderful creatures that come out of the shadows when magic flares.Dervishes Don't Dance is Book 2 of the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.Valkyrie Bestiary Large Print Editions are formatted with style recommendations from the American Council of the Blind.

Kyra Greene is out of this world-literally. Jacoby, her fire dervish, has been lost in the Nether for weeks. Only Kyra can find him but not without help from her estranged father. There's only one snag in that plan. Daddy is dead. To save Jacoby, Kyra will travel between worlds with her band of misfit creatures. And this time, she won't be facing ghosts from Mason's past. She'll be going head to head with the distant dryad branch of her family and maybe digging up a few ghosts of her own. Grimalkins Don't Purr is the fourth book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

Quinn is cursed.Bobbi's a magical screw-up.Together they make a great pair.As ley-lines swell, thinning the veil between worlds, the witches of Hidden Coven guard their most precious resource-magic.Protected by dark wards and guided by a mad seer, the coven is still vulnerable to the attacks of a true demon intent on seizing the coven's power.In this complete series of five novellas, Bobbi begins as a novice spell-caster, more powerful and dangerous than anyone guesses. She will have to become the warrior and protector that the divine Lady sees in her.She'll lay her life on the line.She'll even question her sanity.Is it all worth it to save a coven that doesn't seem to want her?Quinn has his own demons to fight, including his cold-hearted mother and a mystical illness that threatens to take him down. Together, Bobbi and Quinn confront the family secrets that set their story in motion long before they were even born.You'll keep turning the pages on this paranormal thriller because of its quirky characters, sizzling romance and dark intrigue.Grab your copy now.Includes all five novellas of the Hidden Coven Series:Inborn Magic, Soothed by Magic, Trigger Magic, Bellwether Magic, and Gone Magic

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