Dakota Frost — Skindancer, magical tattooist, chair of the Magical Security Council, and harried mother of a teen weretiger and a teen half-elf — still has to pay the bills. Fortunately that involves something awesome, being a headliner on the supernatural debunking show The Exposers billed as the Skeptical Witch.<\/p>\n
Too bad their latest adventure turns up a very real ghost, which latches onto Dakota to help dispel its ancient family curse. Add to that a reawakened fae curse, an invasion from the land of the dead – and an annoying older brother – and you have a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cAlright, your turn,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMo\u2014uh, my Lady Frost, I do not think\u2014\u201d Benjamin began.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d the sphinx said, claws scraping against granite.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked me a riddle, now I ask you a riddle back, correct?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wish to duel me?\u201d the sphinx said. \u201cI accept!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWait,\u201d I said, befuddled, \u201cweren\u2019t we dueling already?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a riddle challenge,\u201d Benjamin said. \u201cTrolls ask one, sphinxes three\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe riddle game is from The Hobbit, Mom,\u201d Cinnamon said, tugging at my arm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe riddle game is an ancient and honorable mode of dueling and I accept,\u201d the sphinx roared, stamping one paw, so that all three of us cringed back. \u201cI accept! We must answer three riddles each before we pass by; at the first slip \u2026 the winner takes the loser as the prize.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Oh dear! Sounds like Dakota and her brood are in trouble!<\/p>\n
Now to brew up more of it. Back to work.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n
P. S. Planning it out, it looks like the next three Dakota Frost books will dovetail nicely with the first three Cinnamon Frost books, so I have a loose hexalogy on my hands. I had to look that one up, God help me. (And I pray He does.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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