Bøker av R Leonia Shea

Calypso "Caly" Mendelsohn relies on her worn deck of Tarot Cards to try and guide her clients on important issues like love, career, and even the occasional family mystery. She tries to stick to her moral code mainly because she already has enough bad karma from her shady past as a con-artist.Her career as a Psychic Advisor in Salem has given Caly the stability her past denied her and things are going well - until Dan Saint James, the heir to shipping fortune, pays for a reading. Dan's past is catching up with him and he needs Caly's unique skills to stay one step ahead of trouble.Helping Dan clean up his own life might be more difficult than Caly imagined because her moral code wasn't designed to deal with art theft or greed. When Caly finds out her former partner has an interest in Dan's problem, that makes it a game Caly's all too familiar with - and one she might not be able to resist. In order to help Dan, Caly will have put her cards on the table and use all of her skills in a dangerous game to stay one step ahead of her past. With her future on the line and a fortune at stake, it will be hard to resist temptation and walk the slippery slope between doing what's right and doing what's easy...but everyone deserves a second chance.

Fixing a boatload of bad karma is hard enough, but trying to avoid temptation and the law while doing it is almost impossible. I'm pretty sure I have the whole karmic debt thing figured out, but my latest client has a problem that could get us both fitted for a nice pair of cement boots. Maggie McLaughlin has had a dirty little secret hanging on the wall of her North Shore art gallery for decades. The million-dollar painting has been photographed, filmed, and admired by thousands of people - but now it could end Maggie's whole career. To fix the disaster, Maggie did what every rational person would: drove to Salem and shelled out seventy-five bucks to see a psychic. I'm no ordinary tarot-card reader. I'm the real deal as a psychic, but I also have a unique skill set to help clients like Maggie. Clients who made one bad decision and who deserve a second chance. This time, the other players in the game are dangerous and one of them might be more skilled than I am at running the perfect con. Nothing's going right on this caper. Every time I think I have a plan, someone throws a toolbox full of wrenches into it. I'm starting to wonder if my psychic skills will see the danger in time to avert an epic disaster. There's also a chance that good-old fate has decided a disaster is exactly what I deserve.

Magic can lead to great rewards...or terrible consequences. After a series of disastrous interviews, Dr. Arienne Cerasola has finally been offered a job: Master Huan, a mysterious Chinese Healer, will pay her to find a mythical healing tree. That shouldn't be too hard for an archaeologist who knows a thing or two about magic. While on the trail of the tree, Arienne is reluctantly partnered with a shady shaman who seeks the same prize. When they encounter the ridiculous antics of the mythical trickster spirit Coyote, suddenly Arienne isn't on a supernatural assignment as much as in a magical mess. With her future career on the line, she's determined to be the only one to leave the Pine Barrens of New Jersey with a branch from the coveted tree - provided she doesn't accidentally kill herself in the process. In Elementary Magic, the first book of the Relic Hunter series, R. Leonia Shea blends urban fantasy with archaeology in a quirky, fun read.

Dr. Arienne Cerasola might have a suspicious mind, but that doesn't mean something nasty isn't being planned by two of her former acquaintances. They have banded together on an archaeological expedition in the United Kingdom, and that could spell trouble for the magical community. The magical apocalypse kind of trouble.As a witch and disgraced archaeologist, Arienne shouldn't be surprised when Kingston Pon asks her help to find a lost relic. After all, Kingston is one of the senior members of the United Coven and Alliance and Arienne is one of the few people who knows about his secret resistance activities with the Crux Crucio Orbis. When she learns her own Grandfather is involved in the C.C.O., Arienne's more than a little angry that her family has been keeping secrets. Secrets about their involvement in the magical world. Secrets about Arienne's legacy. Keeping secrets means creating lies and Arienne is determined to unravel the deception even if it means collapsing the foundation of her new life.Caught between the clandestine world of the C.C.O., the dangers of the Alliance, and the treachery of a new magical organization Arienne must trace the grain of truth in the legends passed down from the ancient Celts, through the Roman Empire, and right into King Arthur's court. Legends that were created to protect the truth and keep the relic from passing into the wrong hands.The confines of loyalty and duty make it an even more complicated quest. She might be the only one who can balance the power without collapsing the foundations that hold magic in check but to accomplish that, she'll have to face the truth about herself, her family, and her place a world she was never really part of.