Half witch. Half light elf. Welcome by neither. Alice is alone and desperate to fit in at her aunt’s coven when she embarks on a dubious quest for cave nettle. Dark Elf. Decker is a leader running out of time. Isolated from the main cave system due to a hex making the water in his cave toxic, even the war his clan demands won’t save them. The two must put aside centuries-old survival instincts and work together to save lives and preserve the fragile treaty between the coven and clan.

Why are werewolves going missing? When a frustrated alpha requests the aid of the Paranormal Peacekeepers, a new partnership is formed. Alice and Amarok are assigned to get in and get answers before the pack problems bleed into the lives of the townspeople. Prisoner or ambassador? As a hybrid, Alice is still struggling with what her place is at the Paranormal Peacekeepers when she is assigned her first mission and given her permanent partner. Before she can find out who is responsible for the missing werewolves, she has to commit to the job and ignore the voice in her head telling her use the mission as a chance to escape. Loyal ambassador and former member of the para-military. Amarok is still broken from the death of his partner when he is assigned to work with new recruit, Alice. While he will vet her, and make sure she is safely returned to the Paranormal Peacekeepers, the bond of partnership means something to him that blurs the lines of following orders. The mission takes them to emotional places they never imagined and tests the limits of their supernatural abilities. To solve the mystery of where the werewolves have gone they will need to redefine themselves and come together as a team.

When a string of dead witches points to the illegal practice of making relics that eternally drip with magic blood, Alice is called to go deep into the vampire underground. The mission plants her as the lead on a military targeting squad, serving a branch of the PPK she despises. To reject the task means the blood of witches on her hands. To succeed means her and Amarok will never be simple ambassadors again – if they ever were. With her and Amarok one step closer to serving the military division of the PPK, she finds comfort in her new, albeit temporary, partnership with the vampire Matthias. While balancing their own evolving relationship, Matthias prepares her for what she will see in the blood dens. Once she steps into the seedy world where ruthless vampires pay to play with magic blood it is quickly clear that everyone underestimated the vampires’ cravings. Can the power she keeps hidden from her keepers save her life without changing it into a life of service not worth living?

When Alice is warned her day is going to being trying, she has no idea that her whole world is going to be turned upside down. Again. There is no reality more frightening to her than being forced to serve in the paramilitary branch of the PPK. No part of the paramilitary is more brutal than Aries squad. As she stares at her new badge, her new Aries badge, that reality manifests from her nightmares. She’s tossed into a mission that parallels her world, where nothing is as it seems. A paracosm stronger than any recorded by the PPK is holding a member of the Aries squad in its grasp. Alice takes comfort that her first Aries mission is a rescue mission. Friends and enemies blur. Desires come on the wind. Choices hold consequences that will ripple through all realities and time. But are the choices really hers to make, or is that part of an illusion created by someone stronger than the paracaster, someone closer, and deadlier?

Despite Stryder using everything at his disposal to turn Alice’s life on the Aries squad into a fairytale, she can’t shake the feeling Aries harbors a malevolent force. Pieces are moving into place for a fabled showdown. On her mission to checkmate a king with a power rivaling any queen, there is only one certainty. Nothing is as it seems. Alice will have to rely on her intuition to know not only who is truly a pawn, but also which pieces will allow her to safely cross dangerous squares in this topsy-turvy looking glass world. A queen can’t protect every piece. Who will be sacrificed in the heart wrenching conclusion of the Paranormal Peacekeepers series?