"Diamond Fire: A Hidden Legacy Novella (4)" by Ilona Andrews
https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Fire-Hidden-Legacy-Novella/dp/0062878433/

Book number four of a six book and one novella (seven books total)
paranormal romance fantasy series. I reread the well printed and well
bound novella MMPB published by Avon in 2018 that I bought new from
Amazon in 2024. I have the other three books in the series and will
reread those soon.

Totally cool series for me. This makes the fourth series that I have
read from Ilona Andrews, a husband and wife writing team based here in
Texas. The Innkeeper, Kate Daniels, and The Edge are the other series
of books. They are now starting a couple of new series of books.

The Hidden Legacy Universe is a complex place. The Osiris serum that
induced magical powers in humans was released to the general public in
1863 and the world was never the same. The serum was banned after a
while but the world was irreparably changed. Families starting breeding children for strength in magical powers with breathtaking results. Magic
users are segregated into five ranks: Minor, Average, Notable,
Significant, and Prime. The Prime families operate mostly outside the
law since they are so powerful and incredibly dangerous.

Nevada Baylor runs a very small detective agency in Houston, Texas ( ! )
that usually works on scammers and divorce cases. She is a 25 year old
hidden Prime Truthseeker, she can unerringly tell lies from truths and
can sometimes force people to emit truths. Her mother and father
started the detective agency but there is a huge mortgage to a Prime
Family that funded the effort to try to save her father from cancer.
The effort failed and left them with a huge mortgage when Nevada was 17.

Connor "Mad" Rogan is a Prime Telekinetic and a noted combat veteran,
famous and feared for leveling a village in the Mexican-Belize war using
only his powers. He is a billionaire with a private army and wants
Nevada Baylor very badly. So badly that he bought all of the property
around the Baylor household in a one mile radius so he can protect
Nevada and her family.

Nevada and Connor's first meeting was when he kidnapped her and chained
her to the floor in his house basement. Things have gotten better since
then. Mostly. Now they are getting married but Nevada does not know
that Connor severely understated the size of his extended family and
their general dysfunctionality, except for Connor's five year old cousin
Mia who is a Prime Telekinetic.

Nevada Baylor's two younger sisters are running the wedding preparations
for Nevada since she is apparently a Bridezilla. Catalina is a Prime
Siren and Arabella is a Prime Beast. Both are fearsome in their own
ways with Arabella being recently being introduced to the Houston and
national populace through the local news cameras while jumping out of a
flying helicopter. The wedding preparations are not going well.

The authors have a very active website at:
https://ilona-andrews.com/

My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (7,979 reviews)

Lynn

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