Guild Codex: Spellbound Series, Part 2 Dark Arts and a Daiquiri / Annette Marie / 306 pages

Tori is settling into her job at the Crow and Hammer, the magic guild where she works as a bartender.  She likes her job but knows it probably won’t last long when Magipol, the magical government, finds out that she’s just a normal human, but at least the paperwork wasn’t gone through yet.  But Tori’s three mage friends are trying to hunt down the notorious Ghost, a black magic rogue, and they need a favor from Tori. The Ghost is known for kidnapping young untrained vulnerable mystics and then they are never seen again and since Tori isn’t in the government system yet they need her to play the bait and pretend to be an untrained mystic to try and catch him. Tori just wants to find Nadine the missing teen that had runaway from home because of abusive parents who was recently taken by the ghost.  Nadine reminds Tori of herself when she was a teen and she really wants to help her, make sure she’s not hurt or taken advantage of but while playing the bait she gets taken too, and things aren’t what they seem. Because Nadine isn’t being hurt, taken advantage, or treated like a slave, in fact she seems really happy. The Ghost owns his own farm and there are a lot of other teens, children and even a couple of adults there and it looks really nice. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 7h 40min.