For readers who've always suspected librarians have the most dangerous jobs—and want to watch one level up from researcher to magical operative.
What if your research project accidentally gave you access to a magical dimension—and launched you into a global conspiracy that would require more than just brains to survive?
Jayne Thorne is living her best quiet life: tea, books, and the Vanderbilt archives. Then she touches the wrong manuscript and everything changes. What starts as an academic problem—decoding an ancient spell book—quickly becomes a matter of survival when a magic-wielding terror organization marks her for death.
Her only option: join a secret branch of the CIA and go undercover at Trinity College Library in Dublin to investigate whether the Book of Leinster is actually a necromantic grimoire. This is the mission that will transform her from cataloger to operative—and reveal she's capable of far more than she ever imagined.
This book delivers:
-The thrill of discovering you're more powerful than you knew
-A fish-out-of-water heroine who weaponizes her research skills (at first)
-Irish libraries, necromantic grimoires, and a kickboxing love interest
-An origin story that promises escalation—Jayne starts clever and ends formidable
-The setup for a five-grimoire quest where the stakes get progressively more epic
Perfect for readers who want Discovery of Witches-style magical academia with Mercy Thompson's action pace—and a protagonist who evolves from treating ancient spell books like the research problem they are to leading missions against supernatural threats.
What makes this series different: Jayne doesn't start as a warrior. She starts as a scholar. But by Book 6, she'll be facing down gods. This is the beginning of that journey—where intelligence is your greatest weapon, but you're about to discover you have other powers too.
If you've been waiting for urban fantasy that respects your intelligence while delivering genuine high-stakes adventure, start here. Jayne's learning curve is your learning curve, and the magical world-building only gets richer (and more dangerous) from here.
Book 1 stands alone but sets up an escalating six-book arc where a quiet librarian becomes the magical world's last hope.
