He’s a by-the-book kind of guy, and she’s a lawbreaker at heart.

Gwen Bennett

As an operative with a hidden talent, I know how to keep my clients safe. It’s ingrained in my unusual DNA, and I’m damn good at my job.

So, when a thief swindles my grandmother out of a fortune and flees to a private island that’s by invite only, I’m determined to find access, even if that means taking a job I don’t want for a family I’d rather avoid.

Maxwell Pierce

She needs me.
There’s desperation in her eyes.
I have something she wants.
And I know it.
When my brother sends me to recruit Gwen Bennett for a job after she’s turned him down, I thought it would be more difficult to make a deal. Offering to share my island suite and my bed was more than enough to get her to agree. Now I just need to get her to realize that my sister’s life is on line and that’s worth more than any money she can hope to recoup.

They’ll have to get creative to keep from losing it all when lives, a family fortune, and their hearts hang in the balance.

Billions of dollars are at stake and they will do whatever it takes to get them.A brilliant egocentric scientist is close to a breakthrough that will make cataract surgery unnecessary.

Professor Lucy Efron administers drops synthesized in her lab, which are secretly tested on elderly people, later found in the cemetery, their eyes mysteriously removed.

As Efron approaches the final clinical trial with her 12th test tube, she reveals that two presidents of major pharmaceutical companies are battling over her formula and nothing – absolutely NOTHING, will stop them from getting this precious 12th tube.

The deadly clinical trial could have gone unnoticed, were it not for Milbert, a naïve medical student, whose grandmother suffers from Alzheimer. She alerts him about the disappearing tenants in her nursing home and says that she might be the next on the murderous list.

As Milbert begins his own investigation and gets closer to unveiling the plot, he understands that he has only one shot at stopping the murder of more innocent people, but it could cost him his own life.

Beneath the streets, forgotten nightmares rise. To hunt monsters, he must become one. Can one man defeat his own darkness in time to save the city?Edinburgh, Scotland. With a magical parasite as the source of his power, Ethan Cole is good for just one thing: killing monsters. But after a fight to the death takes an unexpected turn, he murders the wrong vampire. And when the innocent creature’s kin tracks Cole down, to pay for his mistake he must accept a dangerous, forbidden job.

In a frenzy of bloodshed, Cole uncovers an ancient threat that could destroy his world. But with sinister forces rising from the deep and vampires vanishing from the streets, he’ll have to act fast.

That is, if the thing inside him doesn’t destroy him first…

Will Cole overcome his worst nature in time to save the city from annihilation?

The Cost of Magic is the gritty first book in The Ethan Cole urban fantasy series. If you like complex heroes, dark magical battles and terrifying villains, then you’ll love Andrew Macmillan’s fast-paced tale.