Matthew Goode has never been a lucky man. His mother once told him he had fairy blood, but if that's true, it's never done him any good. He works a boring job for an employer who doesn't appreciate him, and the highlight of his week is exchanging greetings with a mysterious co-worker he knows simply as McCarthy. But he would never dare engage McCarthy beyond a greeting, never mind that the man is his own personal wet dream come to life. In fact, in all the twenty-six years of Matthew's life, he's never managed to form a meaningful relationship with another living soul - aside from a tiny blue parakeet named Delilah. Then Delilah dies. And Matthew's world turns upside down. Suddenly he's a person he doesn't recognize. The kind of man who marches into his boss' office and demands a raise. The kind of man who steals a priceless artifact from his work and makes plans to disappear and start a new life in a completely new country. The kind of man who believes anything is possible, even finding someone to love him. There's just one problem. Matthew works for a witch. And when that witch discovers his priceless property and his no-longer-predictable employee missing, he does what any powerful witch would do. He sends his attack dog to hunt Matthew down. McCarthy wasn't always a witch's errand boy. Once upon a time he was a weak half-human changeling, abandoned by his Unseelie family to the tender mercies of humans. But a powerful witch made him an offer he couldn't refuse: Serve me, and become the strongest dark fey to walk the mortal realm. So for a hundred years McCarthy has done his master's bidding, retrieving hard to acquire magical artifacts, fighting wars against rival covens, and making sure no living being in their right mind crosses his witch. But now he's being sent after Matthew, the timid little part-fey he's been nursing a crush on for years. Because Matthew's done something incredibly stupid and stolen from a witch, and he's going to pay for that foolishness with his life. Unless McCarthy offers in own life instead. __________________ Iron and Bone a paranormal romance novel __________________