Devil's Bargain
by:
Rachel Caine (author)
Playing by the psychic underworld's rules has a cost Jazz Callender's whole life just got turned upside down. Her friend Ben's been convicted of a crime he didn't commit and Jazz is determined to clear his name, even if it means enlisting the help of dark forces. Enter James, a stranger with a...
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Playing by the psychic underworld's rules has a cost Jazz Callender's whole life just got turned upside down. Her friend Ben's been convicted of a crime he didn't commit and Jazz is determined to clear his name, even if it means enlisting the help of dark forces. Enter James, a stranger with a mysterious offer. If Jazz pledges to work for The Cross Society, a shadowy secret organisation, he'll help her save Ben. But as she's thrust into a world of psychic powers and dangerous magic, Jazz isn't just bargaining for her friend's freedom. She's bargaining for her soul too. And how high a price is she willing to pay?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848451568 (1848451563)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Harlequin
Edition language: English
Series: Red Letter Days (#1)
I've read a lot of Rachel Caine books: 13 of 15 of her Morganville Vampires series, all of her Weather Warden books and 2 of 3 in her Revivalist series. This and it's sequel, Devil's Due which I'll start any minute, are nothing like what I've come to expect, but they were written several years ear...
And how disappointed was I when I discovered that, although I received this book from Netgalley, it is not the beginning of a new series but in fact the first of only two books written in this world, and the second book was published over six years ago? I was a bit crushed, is how disappointed. Out...
Jasmine “Jazz” Callender has is pretty rough. Her partner is in prison serving 25-life for the murder of three innocent people. One part of her knows that he didn’t do it and the other part wonders if her judgment is so off that she wouldn’t know her partner was a murderer....Read my full review HER...
Review: Jazz Callender isn’t doing well. Having lost her job as a homicide detective when her partner gets convicted of homicide, she has nowhere to go. So, one day, James turns up. He’s a lawyer and comes with an offer- to save her Ben, she’ll have to work for a strange society which may or may not...
Pretty good. An older novel first published in the UK. See my full review at puretextuality.com3.75 Stars