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HTML: Music defines Margot Tremayne's soul. She thinks best when her hands caress a piano keyboard, but all music eludes her since a demon crushed her hands on the eve of winning a prestigious international piano competition. Fifteen years later, she has built a new career in conducting, composition, and teaching. She still feels empty. The job of driving the increasing murderous demon threat back to the netherworld fall to Abigail Fitzwarrn, Director of the international Guild of Vampire and Demon Hunters. She pushes Margot to return to the scene of her maiming to judge the St. George competition, in order to finally face her demon. Abby knows there is a mystical connection between Margot and the demon: music. Archie Driscoll is a new field agent of the Guild, still trying to master his enhanced powers. He is surprised that Abby taps him to find and destroy the demon while protecting Margot. Their attraction is instant and impossible. Aside from her job as judge of the music competition and he a competitor, her career is reaching into new directions and she will be traveling lot. He's a spy for a super-secret paranormal organization and doesn't know where he will be from week to week. Commitment is impossible for both of them. In the musical competition setting at a haunted manor in remote Yorkshire, Margot and Archie must figure out their growing love while they discover the demon's weakness and free themselves and their music from demonic tyranny before he kills more musicians for the sin of violating his definition of "pure music." .No library descriptions found. |
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Director of the international Guild of Vampire and Demon Hunters, convinces her to go back to the haunted Yorkshire manor to be a judge at the competition and to face the demon. She is joined by a new field agent, Archie Driscoll, who is posing as a contestant. The demon has become increasingly dangerous and needs to be banished permanently. It is up to Margot and Archie to defeat the demon before he kills more musicians who violate his concept of “perfect music”.
I have read, and enjoyed, more traditional fantasy by this author and was curious about how she would handle an urban fantasy. As a musician myself, I really enjoyed that the novel was set at a music competition and that most of the characters were musicians. The ancient Yorkshire manor and neighbouring village were also interesting backdrops to the story. All the characters were complex and well rounded. There were some characters that had also appeared in the first book in the series, but I don’t think it is necessary to have read the first book to appreciate this one. There is some romance between Archie and Margot, but it didn’t get in the way of the plot of the novel. I liked that Archie is not your typical alpha male and Margot is not a damsel in distress and this isn’t a typical HEA romance. They work well as partners in the fight against the demon.
I would recommend this book for readers who enjoy urban fantasy. (