Verity Strange
Legal Magick 3
Alisa Woods
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Verity Strange (Legal Magick 3)
Copyright 2019 by Alisa Woods
August 2019 Edition
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Verity Strange (Legal Magick 3)
A madman. A sex cult. And world-changing genetic magick.
VERITY STRANGEHedge Witch, Youngest Daughter of the Strange Family
Seeing the future isnt all its cracked up to beespecially when you cant change it. Even more so when your Talent nearly kills you. Ive searched the world for a gurua magickal monkwho could help me tame my divination powers, but most were frauds or worse. Being young and female is precarious when youre consorting with powerful adepts. But then I met Eliphas Storm, and everything changed...
WYLDE BANEFBI Analyst, Cult Expert
Eliphas Storm is like any other cult leader. Never mind that hes gathered millions of followers to his sex-magick-enhancing temples. Never mind that hes likely the madman behind these Talent-destroying drugs. Hes all about the power to control peoplepeople like the beautiful and naive Verity Strangeand Im determined to take him down. I grew up in a cult, and I know just how much he could damage a woman like her. But going undercover with an uncooperative asset is a good way to get me killed. And stepping back into the world I left is dangerous in a whole different way...
Wylde is intent on bringing down a charismatic cult leader. Verity is bent on proving his innocence and seducing her way into his inner circle. Together, they have to stop whoever is making the Talent-destroying drugs threatening Chicagos magickal populace.
Verity Strange is the third book in a new paranormal romantic suspense series from bestselling romance author Alisa Woods. The first three books in the series (Ever Strange, Mercy Strange, Verity Strange) follow the three Strange sisters, each powerful witches in an influential magickal family embroiled in a mysterious plot to change everything about the magickal world. Part urban fantasy, Legal Magick takes place in an alternate Chicago where High Magick returned in 1859 and is now integral in every aspect of the legaland illegalworld. Each book is a standalone romance.
Chapter One
A new day is dawning for magick!
The proclamation sent a shiver down Veritys back. Eliphas Stormfamous monk, fantastically powerful adept, and potentially her personal saviorstood with his arms outstretched as if to embrace the multitudes who had gathered to hear him speak. Hed erected a paviliona templeon a wide expanse of grass in the middle of Chicagos Butler Field downtown, and its shiny silver dome glinted the promise of that magickal new world.
Verity should be thereshe should be standing next to Eliphas. By now, she should be part of his inner circle, not watching him on television while she hid in her apartment. But no. Eliphas would want nothing to do with her now, not after what happened at the conference. Her sister Mercy had made sure of that.
Six days ago, Eliphas intoned, his bald head catching a stray sunbeam just like the temple, the International Gen-Magick Conference ironically fulfilled the prophesy Ive been heralding all these years. The day has arrived when magick is no longer a cruel lottery, locked up and determined by your biology, your Talents buried in your genetic code. Ive long said the day would come when all Talents would be available to those who believed. Those whose faith could reach into the fields of chaos magick that surround us and gain every one of us the magickal abilities we deserved. The ones you were always meant to have.
The shiver crawled back up Veritys spine and lifted the hairs at the base of her neck. It was true. All of it. Shed sensed this world-changing future six months ago when shed first met Eliphas on a rocky mountainside in Tibet. Hed stood then, as now, barefoot and broad-shouldered, his open shirt revealing a muscular chest. His force-of-nature sexuality felt like a hot breath on her skin. But it wasnt his raw, animal magnetism that drew her init was the vortex of chaos magick potential that swirled around him. It was a telegraph from the future that said he would be at the center of something big. Shed spent years searching the globe for a true monk, one who could pierce the veil and help her harness this terrible power she possessed, but every prophet had been a false one. All long on promises and withered in magick.
But not Eliphas.
His future would change the world. Her world, specifically. Their fates were entangled like lovers, frantic and hot, no telling where one ended and the other began. She could feel it as electric and strong as any premonition shed ever sensed. And a feeling like that always came true.
Always.
But somehow, everything had gone wrong. She wiped angrily at the desperate tears leaking from the corners of her eyes. The radical events of the conferenceTobin Raine announcing his gen-magick could erase Talents; the attendees losing their abilities, and then Eliphas bringing their powers backhad changed everything. Now they were in the middle of what she called