cover image Heart of Vengeance

Heart of Vengeance

Lisa Edmonds. City Owl, $4.99 e-book (482p) ISBN 978-1-6489801-90

The thrilling sixth urban fantasy in Edmonds’s Alice Worth series (after Heart of Shadows) finds the mage private investigator struggling to master her newfound powers of black magic and reuniting with her long-lost father. Alice’s life grows more complicated when she is sent on a mission to the underworld to stop the vampire Mariela from unleashing the Furies into the living world, testing her alliance with the Vampire Court and putting a strain on her relationship with her werewolf boyfriend, Sean Maclin. It’s up to Alice, together with a few unlikely allies and her ghost sidekick, Malcolm, to save the world. Writing with her characteristic verve, Edmonds underscores Alice’s adventure with delightfully dry wit. Though a clumsy subplot about supernatural race relations rings hollow, Edmonds’s imaginative description of the underworld is as fun as it is fascinating, and the twists and turns along the way will keep readers hooked. Series fans will be pleased to find it’s still going strong. (Oct.)

Correction: The author's last name was misspelled in an earlier version of this review.