When detective for hire, Ashira Cohen, was 13, her con artist father disappeared, leaving her with emotional scars and a limp she can't hide. But she toughened up, determined never to be played again. Is history repeating itself?

First, she's hit on the head during a stakeout, revealing a mysterious tattoo on the back of her skull. Even worse? It's a now-broken ward unleashing dangerous magic that as a Mundane, she shouldn't possess. 

Her unruly powers nearly kill her long-time nemesis, Levi, the uptight leader of the magic community. One word from him about her forbidden abilities, and everything she's built will be taken from her… by force.

The only bright spot is that Levi requires her supernatural skills, providing Ash's chance at payback and she's going to enjoy every second of it.

Series includes: Blood & Ash, Death & Desire, Shadows & Surrender, and Revenge & Rapture.

The Jezebel Files is created by Deborah Wilde, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

The Jezebel Files

Nowadays, there were three ways into Hedon, a place stitched together from pockets of our reality but existing outside of it. The first was via a gold coin that took the user anywhere in that world that they wished to go, free of charge. The second was by using bronze tokens, which also took a person directly to their desired location, but with a cost, usually in the form of a memory. That added to the Queen of Hearts' insights about a person, because knowledge was power. I'd recently tangled with those tokens, and while handy, I wasn't sure they were worth the price of admission. 


The final way in was with a plain coin stamped with an "H," which was used at one of the fixed entrances located in our world. These only required a cost the first time you entered. 


Traveling to Hedon: painful, dangerous, and for me, unfortunately essential. Too bad any easier, backdoor entrances into the world had recently been sealed up for good. Coin travel it was. 


Chapter 135