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  Then he blinked, breaking our contact, and his cocky grin was back.

  Jerk. He’d known I was looking at them, had probably felt my attraction to their fight, to their connection, and couldn’t help but tease the new Police Chief. So he’d given me a little peek of my own desire for fun.

  Vampires had a strange sense of fun.

  He swung up into the driver’s seat, fluid and fast. I thought I saw a scuffle in the cab, then Ben ducked down and there was a moment of intense stillness. When he popped back into view, he ran one thumb over his lower lip, wiping away a smile and maybe a drop of blood before he started the engine and sent the truck rumbling down the road.

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  Books by Devon Monk

  The House Immortal Series:

  House Immortal

  Infinity Bell

  Crucible Zero

  The Broken Magic Series:

  Hell Bent

  Stone Cold

  The Allie Beckstrom Series:

  Magic to the Bone

  Magic in the Blood

  Magic in the Shadows

  Magic on the Storm

  Magic at the Gate

  Magic on the Hunt

  Magic on the Line

  Magic without Mercy

  Magic for a Price

  The Age of Steam Series:

  Dead Iron

  Tin Swift

  Cold Copper

  Short Fiction Collection:

  A Cup of Normal

  About the Author

  Devon Monk is the national bestselling author of the Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy series, the Broken Magic duology, the Age of Steam steampunk books, and the House Immortal trilogy. She has also written several short stories, many of which are available in her A Cup of Normal collection. She lives happily beneath the rainy skies of Oregon and when not writing, she can be found drinking too much coffee and knitting silly things.