[Marla Mason 03] • Dead Reign

Death has come calling, and one woman

has what he wants most of all...

As chief sorcerer of Felport, Marla Mason thought she'd faced every kind of evil themagical world had to offer. But she's never faced a killer like this. He's dark, glib, handsome as the devil-and exactly who he says he is. Death--"in the flesh."He's arrived in Felport with a posse composed of a half-insane necromancer and the reanimated corpse of John Wilkes Booth, and he isn't leaving until he gets what he came for. Only Marla is crazy enoughto tell Death to go back to Hell.

With the Founders' Ball just around the bend, drawing together the brightest, meanest, and most dangerous of Felport's magical elite, the last thingMarla needs is all-out war with the King of the Underworld, but that's exactly what she's got. As the battle lines are drawn, she can count on her hedonistic, body-hopping partner Rondeau...buthow many of her old allies will stand by her side when facing the ultimate adversary? To save her city, Marla will have to find a way to cheatDeath..."literally." "From the Paperback edition."