Dragon's Gift

Magic's Bend, Oregon looks like an ordinary town on a grey stretch of coast, until you learn to see the shops that sell spells and the people who are not people at all. This is a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight, governed by its own hard laws — and the deadliest secret a person can carry is being a FireSoul, born with the stolen gift of dragons: the power to take another's magic. Discovery means death. So Cass Clereaux and her sisters-in-arms do what any sensible outlaw would — they become treasure hunters, chasing cursed artifacts and ancient enemies while keeping one eye on the door. The world unfolds in linked five-book arcs, each following one heroine. It opens with the Firesouls trilogy of series — The Huntress, The Seeker, The Protector — then widens to the DragonGods and the Blackwood sisters across the sea in Scotland (The Valkyrie, The Druid, The Amazon), the Dragon Bloods and Dragon Fae back in Magic's Bend, and the Magic Side books set in Chicago, co-written with Veronica Douglas. Linsey Hall anchors nearly all of it; the sub-series interlock but each opens its own front door. Expect brisk, banter-heavy adventure — grave-robbing with attitude, found family, romance that warms from closed-door to steamy as the world deepens. Newcomers should start with Cass in The Huntress (Ancient Magic); read the Firesouls arcs in order, and the rest of Magic's Bend falls into place around them.