A Trinket for the Taking

I 100% checked this book out because there's a hedgehog on the cover. I love hedgehogs, and I'm still sad that my state doesn't allow them as pets. I have a friend at work who is Finnish, and she told me hedgehogs run wild in the forest there. Between that and the fact that Finland loves black licorice and saunas, I think I should have been born Finnish. 

At any rate, on to the actual book! It was fun, I liked it. Dovey is a two hundred year old mystic. Mystics are a type of magical being. They can cast spells and have trinkets that they infuse with their essence. 

Dovey is bound to Elric, a very old and powerful mystic, meaning she can't ever break free from him. Dovey loves Elric very much, so she's okay with this...until Elric asks her to track down a powerful trinket that's been stolen. Dovey goes to work and in the process of her investigation meets a handsome and charming FBI agent named Grant Bartholomew. Sparks fly between them and Dovey realizes she's toeing a dangerous line. The bound can't have relationships with the  unbound (the common people) without causing major problems. Not to mention Elric would have him killed if he so much as suspected Dovey had feelings for him. 

Dovey puts that aside to concentrate on finding the trinket as more members of a powerful Greek pharmaceutical family keep dying in horrific ways. 

And Dovey has a magical pet hedgehog named Bits who helps her choose her daily wardrobe 😀

It was the first book in a series and I'm excited to read the second one.