A Taste for Mischief (Valkaria Mysteries #2)
Fresh off her first successful case, Agent Harvest Rosenbloom is eager for a relaxing Christmas break at her family鈥檚 enchanted home on a magical island off Florida鈥檚 coast. But her plans for tranquility are shattered when she stumbles upon a dead body, clutching a business card from none other than her swoon-worthy colleague, Agent Julian Quinn.Quinn is no ordinary agent; he鈥檚 a centuries-old vampire with a complicated past and more skeletons in his closet than he would care to admit. Working for the Bureau鈥攁 secretive magical law enforcement agency that tackles the darkest crimes of the supernatural鈥攈e鈥檚 found a grim sort of redemption, even if it does little to quiet his inner demons. He鈥檚 even looking forward to working on another case with Harvest, but like most investigations, nothing is as straightforward as it seems. Unfolding over the course of two individual cases, tension flares between them, suspects are scarce, and the arrival of someone from Harvest鈥檚 past threatens to derail one of the investigations entirely. With the stakes rising, the duo must untangle a web of secrets鈥攂oth old and new鈥攚hile confronting their own haunted pasts. Can they uncover the truth before the killer strikes again, or will their trust unravel under the weight of buried secrets?
Introduction:
Fresh off her first successful case, Agent Harvest Rosenbloom is eager for a relaxing Christmas break at her family鈥檚 enchanted home on a magical island off Florida鈥檚 coast. But her plans for tranquility are shattered when she stumbles upon a dead body, clutching a business card from none other than her swoon-worthy colleague, Agent Julian Quinn.Quinn is no ordinary agent; he鈥檚 a centuries-old vampire with a complicated past and more skeletons in his closet than he would care to admit. Working for the Bureau鈥攁 secretive magical law enforcement agency that tackles the darkest crimes of the supernatural鈥攈e鈥檚 found a grim sort of redemption, even if it does little to quiet his inner demons. He鈥檚 even looking forward to working on another case with Harvest, but like most investigations, nothing is as straightforward as it seems. Unfolding over the course of two individual cases, tension flares between them, suspects are scarce, and the arrival of someone from Harvest鈥檚 past threatens to derail one of the investigations entirely. With the stakes rising, the duo must untangle a web of secrets鈥攂oth old and new鈥攚hile confronting their own haunted pasts. Can they uncover the truth before the killer strikes again, or will their trust unravel under the weight of buried secrets?...
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