The Library of Amorlin

Kasira was once a skilled con artist, a woman who picked her mark, earned trust and knew exactly when to strike. Now she serves a long prison sentence by hunting dangerous magical creatures for Kalthos, a fanatical kingdom.

Her past reaches her camp in the person of Kalthos's ambassador, who offers a deal. If she infiltrates the Library of Amorlin and destabilizes it, she goes free. The institution exists to protect all six kingdoms.

Kasira takes the post of Assistant Librarian and steps into a place full of books and beasts. It offers a life she knows she cannot keep. Her release still depends on a long con aimed at the Librarian, Allaster.

Allaster is prickly and handsome, and he keeps monstrous secrets of his own. The romance between them builds slowly, and the tension runs through an adult fantasy of twists and tricks with magical creatures in the stacks.

As those secrets close in on both of them, Kasira has to decide how far she will take the deception she was sent to carry out.