the Lion & Lynchpin

Bol

She'll tell you her name is Beverly, but it's not.It's been one year since Prim woke up surrounded by the mutilated bodies of her family. To disappear she's dyed her hair, run from her hometown, and taken up cheating at poker to make ends meet without leaving a paper trail. With the assistance of a disembodied guide she calls Voice, she's managed to stay one step ahead of the monsters that killed her family.But her luck has just run out. Jonathan Rivers is a man who can get anything he wants, except for the one thing that was taken from him: the half of his stolen powers hidden away in the world adjacent to our own. To get them back he needs a guardian - those in control of the veil between worlds. With her family gone, Prim is the only one left. Now that Rivers has her, he won't stop until she has opened the world for him.But Prim doesn't take well to being captured, and eventually Rivers is forced to strike a deal that turns her from captive to partner: she'll stop making his life miserable and help him get back his powers, and he'll help solve her family's murder.All the pair have to do is dodge new threats, solve a murder, and not let their respective trust issues and constant quest to one-up each other sabotage everything...Easy? Easy!

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Pages: 454, Paperback, Little Sister