Magic Burns - Ilona Andrews

The follow-up to Magic Bites finds Kate Daniels, a mercenary who cleans up after magic has gone wrong, setting out to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shape shifters. As temperatures and tempers start to flare, Kate quickly realizes much more is at stake. Original.

nMercenary Kate Daniels tries to save her city from divine intervention in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series. nAs a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide.

But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant. Now Kate's going to have to deal with problems on a much bigger scale: a divine one. n nWhen Kate sets out to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack--Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shape shifters--she quickly realizes much more is at stake.

During a flare, gods and goddesses can manifest and battle for power. The stolen maps are only the opening gambit in an epic tug of war between two gods hoping for rebirth, and if Kate can't stop the cataclysmic showdown, Atlanta may not survive...n