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The book takes turns on the characters who work for Witches for Hire. It’s a small temp agency where witches from different environment/realms can work, obtain their green cards and help the community. The story is told from four perspectives and these characters are the magical beings that are employed by this small temp agency. Clive is a knight who is new to the earth realm. He’s also the new owner/boss of Witches for Hire. His main goal is to move on from his life in his home realm and start anew. Simone and Jeremy are witches who have gone through a couple bad bosses and the death of a good one in their time at the agency. Simone is working there for monetary gain and experience. Jeremy is there to redeem himself from his mysterious dark past. Both don’t want anything bad to befall their new boss. Edarra, is The Amazon trying to obtain her green card and seeks advancement.

Clive is happy taking on jobs that aren’t too ambitious, and his staff isn’t opposed to the steady paychecks. He does it to help build up the agency's reputation. When energy vampires, a kind of bad witch that kill and steals the power of their victims, enter the picture, the gang is takes it upon themselves to look into who the culprits are. It doesn’t help that Clive’s predecessor’s death is somehow tied to it. Not to mention, Desmond the Great, a celebrity magician seems to be the intended target. The agency hopes to be able to collaborate with Desmond to solve the case. Something Jeremy doesn't seem particularly happy about.

I have to say it took me a bit to warm up to the narrative switching between characters. I was more intrigued about Jeremy, his background/real identity, secrets, his ties to the magical community, who his love interest, which isn't particularly apparent although we get an inkling from the blurb, is. What his beef with the energy vamps are. I wanted the story to just focus on him and not go to the other characters but as the story wore on it actually wasn't so bad. Luckily the main focus of the story is Jeremy Ragsdale, his secretiveness and unfriendly personality hasn’t won him any employee of the year awards. But he has his reasoning and readers get to learn why he is the way he is. Throughout the story we also get snippets of detail on each character and also their thought process.

There was still quite a bit of information we don't get about the characters that I'm sure will be answered in the next installment (which I hope won't be too long in the making and will continue giving focus to Jeremy and his soul mate. I'm also waiting for the next book in the family of lies series).

I feel I can't go into too much detail for the story, least I give away the whole story. Be warned you probably shouldn't start the book unless you have a day to read it uninterrupted. I couldn't put it down and had to sneak it during work hours.