Is this book perfect? No. Is it perfect for me right now? Yes. 5 stars. Do I have time to reread Blood Heir? I do not, but I probably will anyway.
Kate and Curran, along with their 8 year old son, Conlan have moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to get away from their notoriety in Atlanta. They bought a Fort, which they are renovating to make it a homey sort of castle. They’ve got Conlan registered at an expensive school. They have a contractor. They are uninvolved in local politics. It doesn’t last, but Magic Tides is still the Lennart family Happily Ever After.
Conlan introduces Kate to the contractor’s nephew and then drops the news that his brother has been kidnapped. This sets Kate off on a mission to rescue the boy and get rid of kidnappers and human traffickers. Curran and Conlan stay home and get ready for the expected siege. The couple have been together long enough to know what needs to be done without discussion.
“What do you think she’s going to do?” Paul asked.
“She will find the hornet’s nest and set it on fire. When the angry hornets fly out, she’ll poke them with her sword.”
“You don’t seem that worried,” Paul said.
“I’m not. She’s almost as good as she thinks she is. Don’t tell her I said that. Seriously.”
Kate and Curran can walk away from the power they once held, but it will still find them. The case is not connected to their past lives in Atlanta, but their connections to the Pack and the People insure that saving a kidnapped boy will never be a simple mission. As low key as they want to be in their new city, people will find them. Kate’s father is trying to exert influence from his pocket dimension prison, and the mess he left behind is always going to reach out to Kate.
I loved watching Kate work the problem in front of her without also having every single one of the competing factions in Atlanta popping up to help and hinder. The Andrews have talked about this as a slice of life visit with the Lennarts. I’ll read more if another story demands to be written.
