Dirk Raynell is the half-elf son of Lex, the elf who founded the magical team. But he isn’t certain he wants to become a member, even after he meets its charismatic and very gay Elven leader Tonio. The team is comprised of Felan, a wolf-shifter; Reni, a vampire witch; Mattie, a human witch; and Bay, a human warlock who is cursed to come back each time he dies at the age he was at his first death. The sixth, unofficial member is Nina, Tonio's twin sister and a healer.<br><br>Then Dirk becomes embroiled in the jobs the team does, including taking down a mobster and trying to eliminate a very evil sorcerer. Along the way he falls for Bay and discovers swirling undercurrents within the team which could determine if they can successfully stop the sorcerer before he destroys them all.

A Magical Team

Dirk listened, frowning. “You know his answers are all lies.”


“The verbal ones, of course,” Mattie agreed. “But you know the saying about the elephant.”


She smiled. “No, the other one, where you tell someone not to think about the word ‘elephant.’”


“A very useful trick when the interrogator can read minds,” Bay pointed out.


It took about twenty minutes before Tonio deemed he was satisfied he’d gotten the information they needed. Then he put Acasta to sleep and said, “Mattie, why don’t you and Dirk take our guest and plant him somewhere safely out of sight while the rest of us see to his friends.”


Dirk wanted to protest but one sharp look from Tonio, when he started to, and he shut up. With Bay doing the hauling, they got Acasta into the bed of one of the trucks. Tonio released the holding spell on the man at that point, after Bay trussed Acasta up like a Christmas turkey, then covered him with a tarp.


Chapter 9