Relics

The Merging gave everyone magic. It also woke things that should have stayed asleep.

Cori Munroe expected being ambassador for the Avalon Accords to be tedious-endless UN assemblies, trade agreements, and sudoku puzzles snuck in with her meeting notes. Boring sounded fine. Boring meant nobody was trying to kill her.

Then the council hands her a new job: ancient relics, drained of power centuries ago, are waking up. The Mask of Shango is calling storms. Excalibur's stone is shedding its rust. And someone is quietly buying up magical artifacts faster than Cori can even locate them.

The council wants the relics retrieved. Cori is not Indiana Jones, and she is definitely not becoming a cat burglar.

But when one relic lands in the hands of a politician charming his way toward the White House, walking away stops being an option. Some artifacts grant power. This one grants belief-and everyone who hears him speak falls in line.

With her Cath familiar Carelian at her side and her family in the crossfire, Cori must track down the relic and unmask the man holding it-before the whole country follows him over a cliff.

Relics is Book 1 of the Cori at Large trilogy, continuing the story of the Twisted Luck series. Urban fantasy with a snarky heroine, a six-foot magical cat, found family, and zero romance-just magic, politics, and one woman who refuses to steal anything, no matter how enchanted it is.