So while we are reading about him coming to collect, we are also getting flashbacks and seeing how their relationship started and why it ended. The relationship between Callie and The Bargainer is told in the past and the present. I never found myself getting lost in the pages nor the story. However, it feels like this book was stretched and I can honestly say I felt every single one of these 400+ pages. There were fae and fae courts and a few dark themes that surround this that should have made this book a winner for me. It just wasn’t what I thought it would be. If I wouldn’t have read Pestilence by this author earlier a few months ago, then it most likely would have still been sitting there. In all seriousness, this book has been on my kindle since March of 2017. I finally got around to reading this book and I’m so proud of that accomplishment.

Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one. If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he’ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that’s been awoken. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Something is happening in the Otherworld. At first it’s just a chaste kiss-a single bead’s worth-and a promise for more.įor the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.īut for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. He’s a man who can get you anything you want … at a price. Only then will the beads disappear.Įveryone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past.

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