I looked up at the half case of Crystal Head Aurora and sighed. I’d be dusting those funky skull shaped bottles for a while.
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Jonesy, being a wheel of sorts, got the news trucks rolling. Crazy Jay, at the marina, shot me a text saying he’s buried in reporters and that it didn’t appear that Jonesy went out in any natural fashion. His words were, to wit, “the dude exploded.”
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Weird. The beach and the line co-existed in full-blown neutral for months; there weren’t any simmering disagreements to portend an attack. Clueless humans aside, the magical and Vapor entities showed me an intention to cohabitate with the real world. It’d been, in my eye, a reasonable transition.
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So, while a decomposing body could explode, one in an air-conditioned yacht was not a candidate for blast-factor 9000. A magical, with minimal effort, had a plethora of options to blow a human to pieces. Vapors too, I imagined, although I was still trying to understand them. Natural laws didn’t apply.
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Color me alarmed. And, curious. What the hell was Jonesy doing that pulled dark attention toward his bubble of opulence?
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Other Books by Winnie Winkle
Messing Up Magic: Messing Up Magic Book 1
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There’s always a price to pay…
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For Haseya, that price means a life of celibacy. A Navajo Skinwalker Witch, her gift of healing forbids her from loving a man intent on pain and destruction.
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For Zayn, the price means a life of anger and loneliness. A Djinn, he is torn by the need to seek vengeance.
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Zayn will do anything to protect Haseya. When hostile aliens searching for shifters arrive in Magic, New Mexico, he is willing to unleash any force to save the woman he loves and the town that needs him—but will the price of protecting those he loves drive a wedge between him and the beautiful witch he is destined to love forever?
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Swimming for Air: Messing Up Magic Book 2
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A lie meant to protect her could lead to her destruction...
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Sylvia’s brother, Theo, reveals the unimaginable—their parents were anything but human. Her half-brother may be a dragon, but Sylvia has inherited both their parents’ magic. Her life was already complicated; now the sudden appearance of a handsome, haughty Djinn with anger management issues doubles the tension. She is both drawn to and repulsed by Rafi, which is adding to her confusion.
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Rafi is shaken when he meets the sweet and sexy Sylvia. How can he—a sworn hater of humanity—be attracted to a human?! He can’t shake the power she has over him or his raging desire for her. As he struggles, determined to win Sylvia and become her forever lover, his own magical brother’s growing madness and violence threatens to overwhelm them all.
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Sylvia learns there’s a spell covering her, one meant to protect her and hide her magic. She struggles to break the protecting enchantment so she can fight, alongside her brother, against the pestilence that is coming. Is Rafi on their side, or will the fidelity of brotherhood bind him to evil?
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Facing a master of magic, Sylvia knows her steadfast belief in the human heart and harmony within the forces of the earth isn’t much use. As she races to find the answer to unlocking her magic, she can’t help wondering if their love—connecting Rafi’s wind and her water—can find balance and be enough to protect them and those they love from a force intent on their destruction.
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Raining Magic: Messing Up Magic Book 3
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Their spirits are free… but their town is under siege.
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Tashi, a dazzling firebird-moon elf, packs a lot of magical power in her punch. Her discovery that Magic, New Mexico is in trouble sends her winging to the town with a dire warning of doom. It also sets her on a collision course with a super hot warlock.
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Zac takes one look and knows he has to have Tashi. He’s spent a lifetime turning away from his dark side; now he’s ready to capture this little free-spirited hedonist living her life in wild abandon. Feisty and fearless, she belongs to no one. Zac is determined to make Tashi his, regardless of the cost.
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Tashi and Zac face three different enemies, each resolved to steal away or destroy the town’s magical residents. In a battle of wits, unusual spells, and bewitching ingenuity, Tashi and Zac’s future together depends on the resilience of love in a world out of kilter. They take their stand against allies once considered friends, a cruel alien race bent on their enslavement, and a vengeful Djinn with a god complex.
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In a life flipped upside down, what could go right?
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Broke in Magic: Broke in Magic Book 1
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If she killed him, it’d be worth it.
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After his car breaks down in Magic, New Mexico, Jasper touches Melia’s fingertips... and she knocks him out cold. He awakens in a red, raging lust, determined to get with her. There’s one little snag, but it’s a doozy. His demon daddy plans to turn him darker than Hades. Holding the line with Jasper are his two best friends, who think running is the answer.
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Melia, a gorgeous, ethereal Muse and a badass balancer of evil, is equally struck by lust’s lightning. She’ll take Jasper out, but in her heart, she’d rather be taken by this sexy, clueless warlock. If Jasper explodes from the protections his witch mother cast to hide him from his magic, Melia has no choice but to kill him. Used to working alone, she makes an unlikely alliance, desperate to keep Jasper in the light, in her life, and take him as her fated forever lover.
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Will Big Daddy and his demon minions prevail, forcing Melia to shred her own heart and kill the man she believes is her one true love? Can Jasper survive his birthright fate? A raging chase across the New Mexican desert turns into a good vs evil free-for-all, forcing each to respond to the internal questions of balance, darkness, and love’s light.
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Harpy Gumbo: Broke in Magic Book 2
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Evil has already destroyed her heart — now it wants to ruin the world.
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Trini is built for murder. A harpy who escaped a lifetime of abuse, she struggles with everything and her fight or flight instincts leave blood and tears in her wake.
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Wellie is pulled in a direction he never expects — to Trini’s spirit. He searches to find her, convinced that she is the one for him.
Whether he can survive her is another matter.
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Deep in the center of New Orleans the intersection of real and magical worlds is hidden — a portal now under attack by dark forces. The Vapors are determined to upend the balance between light and dark. Their plot will force the portal to open, but there is one problem — Trini holds the key. The course of humanity hinges on Trini’s ability to overcome her past. Standing at the edge of another Dark Ages, Wellie is willing to die to protect Trini. The question is — is Trini willing to let go and live for him?
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