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Magic to the bone

Title:

Magic to the bone

Author:

Monk, Devon, author.

Series:

Allie Beckstrom ;

Series Number:

General Note:

"ROC fantasy"--Spine.

Physical Description:

viii, 355 p. ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Subject Term:

Beckstrom, Allie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Portland (Or.) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Roc,

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9780451462404

Publication Information:

New York : Roc, c2008.

Call Number:

MONK

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Using magic means it uses you back - and every spell exacts a price from the user. Some people, however, get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Allison Beckstrom's job is to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune and the strings that come with it, but when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father's signature all over it she is thrown back into the world of his black magic.

Author Notes

Devon Monk has one husband, two sons, and a dog named Mojo. She lives in Oregon and is surrounded by colorful and numerous family members who mostly live within dinner-calling distance of each other. She has sold over fifty short stories to fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, and young adult magazines and anthologies. Her stories have been published in five countries and included in a Year's Best Fantasy collection. When not writing, Devon is either knitting, remodeling the house-that-was-once-a-barn, or hosting a family celebration.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

In this clever and compulsively readable debut, set in a magical analog of Portland, Ore., Allie Beckstrom is a Hound, able to trace a spell back to its caster. When a young boy is injured by a spell, Allie tracks it back to her estranged father, Daniel, a ruthless businessman who protests his innocence. Then someone magically disguised as Allie kills Daniel. Allie and sexy corporate operative Zayvion race against time to find the answers. Magic is common in this alternate universe, but using it always incurs a physical or mental cost, rendering it a commodity to be bought and sold, used and abused. Allie's internal and external struggles are brilliantly and tightly written, creating a multifaceted character who will surprise, amuse, amaze and absorb readers. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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