Spellbinder: A Love Story with Magical Interruptions

In a departure from her fire-breathing fantasy Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies, Rawn conjures the sex lives and turf wars of modern Manhattan witches in this entertaining if overstuffed novel. Sexy, macho U.S. Marshal Evan Lachlan adores novelist and witch Holly McClure for her beauty and charm; Holly's coven values her for her blood, which has the unique ability to make spells stick. While Holly and Evan's romance heats up, Holly's Circle, presided over by powerful Judge Elias Sutton Bradshaw, struggles to defuse a sociopath Satanist, Noel. Witch and mundane worlds collide after Noel kills a famous evangelist's son during a kinky black magic ritual starring renegade novelist and witch, Denise Josèphe. This cauldron bubbles over with spells, rituals, sex and even a vampire or two. (Oct.)