JL Park
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She Wore Black: The Alexis Chronicles Book One
The woman who wore black.
The Leaders of the city of GreyBrook feared her, for she would destroy their society as they knew it.
If her abduction were a freak accident, Reed might have been able to understand. But the abuse she suffered at the hands of Walker and others only happens to one portion of the population: women.
Things weren’t always this way; they couldn’t have been. Prior to her imprisonment, Reed discovered a book, written by those that had come ‘Before.’
And that’s where she learned of her.
With every breath she took, Reed made a solemn vow: she would find the woman in black, and she would tear apart the very fabric of the city of GreyBrook at her side if it was the last thing she did. It was that, or die trying.
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Bluff
Razor-sharp and spellbindingly told, Bluff takes us deep inside the fraught and fascinating world of a modern magician who becomes obsessed with magic’s dark twin―the underworld of the cardsharp.
“Hopelessly addictive.” ―Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know Me
“If you haven’t read Kardos yet, Bluff is the perfect place to start!” ―Lisa Scottoline, bestselling author of Exposed
At twenty-seven, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she took first place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen and has never again reached such heights. Shunned by the magic world after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone in a New Jersey apartment with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills. In a desperate ploy for extra cash, she follows up on an old offer to write for a glossy magazine and pitches the editor a seductive topic: the art of cheating at cards.
But when Natalie meets the perfect subject for her piece―a poker cheat who dazzles at sleight of hand―what begins as a journalistic gamble soon becomes a test of everything she thinks she knows about her talent, and herself. Natalie soon finds herself facing a dangerous proposition that could radically alter her fortune―to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done successfully, no one will ever suspect happened. With Kardos raising the stakes chapter after chapter, Bluff is a breathtaking work of suspense from a writer at the top of his game.