Rhapsodic (The Bargainers Book 1) - Laura Thalassa

n nCallypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations.

Only then will the beads disappear.n n nn nEveryone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want ... at a price.

And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.n n nn nBut for one of his clients, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change.

At first it's just a chaste kiss-a single bead's worth-and a promise for more.n n nn nFor the Bargainer, it's more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one.

Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that's been awoken.n n nn If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.