

It's wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance. But when her fiance, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real-and Ben is hooked. Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a.

The mystery is all in the cards, and to save her life - and humanity - Ernie had better learn how to deal.Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. And if her roguish new ally isn’t bluffing, he can help. It’s up to Ernie to defeat the most brutal member of their order.

Suddenly Ernie’s matching wits and plays with the supernatural Immortal Dealers, who can raise empires, damn souls, and shape the world’s destiny. But she’s not even playing with a full deck, and its original owner is more than happy to kill to get his cards back. With a handful of stolen cards, Ernie has just been made an unwilling player in a game of good versus evil.

When Ernie grabs some of the cards and runs, she’s launched into a world she never knew existed - one her mother may know more about than she’s revealing. Case in point: saving her from a mysterious stranger who’s just stormed the terrified woman’s antique store wearing a rattlesnake tattoo, leveling threats, and brandishing the weirdest deck of cards Ernie’s ever seen. One woman is in a world of otherworldly trouble - and she’s going to have to bet her life to save humankind.Įrnestine “Ernie” Terwilliger has put her dreams aside to look after her eccentric mother.
