Series: Crossroads Queen # 3
Format: Kindle, 237 pages
Release Date: October 5, 2023
Publisher: Red Palm Press LLC
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Urban Fantasy Lorelei Clay is desperate to stay safe behind her castle walls.
She’s also desperate for money.
When
a mage assassin asks for help with a delicate matter involving a
ruthless vampire mobster, Lorelei agrees—for a price. Part of the deal
is that Kane Sullivan can’t know. Yes, that Kane. Prince of hell. Demon
to end all demons. Stubborn, nosy, and ridiculously sexy.
If only the demon weren’t so curious about her.
Lorelei has spent her life moving, hiding, laying low, and avoiding relationships of any kind.
In Fairhaven, that’s all about to change.
Dead Last is the third book in the six book Crossroads Queen Urban Fantasy series written by Annabel Chase featuring Lorelei Clay. Lorelei left London behind to move into Bluebeard's Castle in Fairhaven. The Castle is a relic of the Gilded Age, and even includes a moat! She also ended up with two ghosts (Nana Pratt and Ray Bauer) for company. She was unaware that Fairhaven was close to a Crossroads portal that may link numerous alternative realities. No matter how hard Lorelei has tried to stay hidden
away from the world in her Castle, something or someone keeps asking for
help and she feels a need to help.
In this episode, answers to who Lorelei really is will be revealed, and the resulting revelation may change the dynamics between Lorelei and Kane Sullivan, the powerful demon lord, who she has been playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with. This story takes place around Halloween which Lorelei has no use for. In fact, she doesn't even have any candy or a pumpkin! It isn't until she's told that people in Fairhaven are falling asleep, and not dreaming that things seem to become dangerous. To that end, Lorelei ends up working with Weston Davies, Alpha of the Arrowhead werewolf pack.
When humans start to fall asleep, and not dreaming, including Alicia's mother, Lorelei begins to wonder if this is because of her presence in Fairhaven. Lorelei's other problem is Naomi Smith an investigator from the Corporation who knows that Lorelei isn't human. The Corporation was introduced in the
previous installment which led Lorelei to uncovering a massive treasure vault kept in an alternative universe. Naomi takes an immediate interest in Lorelei and whether or not she had
anything to do with certain members of the Corporation ending up dead. She's also there at the end when the truth about Lorelei is revealed.
Lorelei's third challenge is helping an assassin guild member, Gunther Saxon, who comes to her because his sister Dusty is in
trouble after making a bad deal in drinking an elixir which ended up turning her into a swam. Lorelei reluctantly agrees to help them and finds herself
embroiled in a difficult situation with a vampire mobster who doesn't exactly get along with Kane Sullivan or her scramble playing blind vampire friend Otto Visconti. Because of this, Lorelei's actual persona is revealed, and that doesn't sit right with Kane who all but goes silent. Whether or not this is the last time we hear from the Corporation, is totally at the hands of the author.
*Overall* This is an entertaining book, and I am not sad that there hasn't been any romance up to this point. While the synopsis says there's supposed to be a slow burn romance, I am happy just to figure out more about who Lorelei is, and how powerful she can be.
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