Brendan Hunter is a private investigator stuck on dead-end cases until seven dwarves show up in his office and offer him a King’s ransom to track down a missing girl. Their description of Lily Whitaker sparks his imagination, leading him into the dark world of twisted fairy tales, magical machinations, and political gambits...

Rule ten: Magic is dangerous. Play with it, and you’ll get burned. Life has taken an unexpected turn for Stasia Weatherly. Now a full partner at Weather and Hunter, Private Investigators, and enjoying her budding relationship with Brendan, everything Stasia has worked for is set to unravel when her bondmate, Red, hires the duo. The shifter clan elders have mysteriously disappeared, including Nana Riding, Stasia’s grandmother. With her grandmother missing, Stasia finds herself the temporary leader of the shifters she left behind after her brother was exiled from the clans. The case will test the limits of her skills while she learns to navigate the politics and magic that threatens to tear her world apart.