Bodyguards of Samhain Shifter Box Set by Lisa Daniels

Author:Lisa Daniels [Daniels, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter One – Morgana

“Welcome to Stoneshire.” The receptionist smiled at Morgana Hargraves, who barely twitched a smile in response. “Hope it was a pleasant journey for you.”

“Where’s my sister?” Morgana peered around, as if expecting to see her sister pop out at any moment.

“She’s not here, I’m afraid. She’s a bit busy with a new set of bones from Rwanda at the moment. Something about checking to see if they have latent powers in them.”

Morgana puffed out a sigh. First her cousin refused to meet her at the airport. Second, she wasn’t even here now that Morgana was in range. Felt as if Amelia Hargraves’ avoidance was deliberate. “Where am I staying?”

“Oh, let me show you!” The receptionist sprang to her feet, all red-lipped smiles and sparkling eyes like an excited child. “We’re taking you to the same suite where another necromancer stayed. Everything will be set there for you and your bodyguard, too.”

“My what now?” Morgana glared at the woman’s back, who seemed utterly unperturbed.

“Bodyguard. It’s not so safe in these parts for your lot to be around, after all. Have you been reading the news? We’re getting up to two shootings a day, and the necromancer death rate’s rising again. But you mustn’t think you’ll be in danger with us, of course! Safe as houses, here!”

“Wasn’t this house decimated by a revenant?” Morgana said.

“That was five months ago. No troubles since!”

Somehow, Morgana didn’t feel particularly inclined to address that. But at least for her brief time here, she was getting paid a lump sum for her services. Part of why she accepted the six-month contract in the first place. She hadn’t really been looking forward to dealing with her cousin, because sometimes their branch of the family liked to pretend the other one didn’t exist.

Something to do with something her father and uncle did to one another some time ago. Morgana’s father insisted that the other Hargraves was a dirty cheating bastard, but that could have been for any reason, really. Not that he seemed inclined to share it, which might have defogged the air on the whole matter. Maybe people just liked having a reason to be angry at one another. Add some drama to their otherwise dull and monotonous lives by finding different ways to hate things.

“Are you really serious about assigning a bodyguard to me?” Morgana said, and the receptionist bobbed her head.

“Of course. It’s very risky. The current administration is very much against death magic and darker magics of all forms, and people are eating it all up. But not me. You mustn’t think I am! I’m cool with necromancers. I even have a necromancer friend!”

Something about the woman’s bubbly tone irritated the ever-living hell out of her. Like she was trying too hard to prove that she was clearly not like the others, when in fact she probably was but didn’t want to admit it.

“What type of bodyguard? Normal? Supernatural?”

“A supernatural,” she confirmed. “Got them for a good price, too.”

Nice to know they weren’t cutting costs on the price of her life, then.

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