Shattered Magic

The magic never left. It only learned to hide behind the streetlights. Something older than the city moves through the modern Pacific Northwest — demons that deal in souls, fae who run their rackets in the dark, gods with debts still on the books. In Jayne Faith's world the supernatural is real, unlawful, and deeply inconvenient, and the people who work its border are mostly women who never asked for the power that marks them. Across four interlocking series, a single author threads one contemporary America shot through with old power. Ella Grey works Boise's supernatural beat as a fatebound necromancer with a demon riding her soul and something slowly eating it. Delilah Dane comes into her strength as an earth mage. Tara Knightley tangles with a stolen sword and the fae mafia and an old crush she'd rather forget. The Stone Blood books turn harder, bloodier ground. Each stands on its own, bound to the others less by one long plot than by a shared, magic-bruised world. Expect short chapters, wisecracks under pressure, a slow-burn romance beneath the casework, and stakes that keep ratcheting up. Start with Ella Grey and Sundered Souls — the widest doorway in, and the reason most readers stay past the first body.