DEATH MAGIC opens with Special Agent Lily Yu in Washington, D.C. with her fiancé--lupi prince Rule Turner—to testify before a Senate subcommittee about her role in the magical collapse of a mountain last month.  She is not there to tell them about the strange legacy she carries from that event—or about the arcane bond between her and Rule--or what her boss in Unit Twleve of the FBI’s Magical Crimes Division is really up to.  She sure won’t tell them that the lupi are at war with an Old One who wants to remake humanity in her own image.

Lily is managing the conflict between her duty as an officer of the law and the need for secrecy pretty well . . . until the rabidly anti-magic senator who chairs that committee is murdered. The line between right and wrong, always so clear to her, becomes hopelessly blurred as events catapult them all towards disaster, and prophecies of a cataclysmic end to the country she loves and serves--and to the entire race of lupi--seem well on their way to being fulfilled.

Release Date: November 2011 ISBN: 9780425243299 Returning characters: Surprise! It's Benedict and Arjenie now.

Update!

As many of you know, I finished DEATH MAGIC recently.  Time to launch into the novella that will be part of the TIED WITH A BOW anthology, out in November . . . but there was a problem.  TIED WITH A BOW is--you can tell from the title, right?--a holiday anthology.  The story I'd planned to write, featuring Cynna & Cullen and the new baby, wouldn't work because of, um, things that happened in DEATH MAGIC.  Which I can't be specific about, but don't worry--The C-couple and the baby are okay.  They just don't get a story right now.

Instead, I'm writing "Human Error," which is about Arjennie and Benedict.  It's Christmas and Benedict is going to spend the holiday with Arjenie's family . . . her large, Wiccan, entirely human family.  Who he hasn't met.   Now, Benedict has lived most of his life at Clanhome, surrounded by lupi.  He isn't used to fitting in with humans.  He even asked his brother for advice about clothes, hoping to create the right impression.

So it's a shame the way things go wrong from the moment he gets out of the car . . . .

BLOOD CHALLENGE, Eileen's 7th book in her World of the Lupi series, hits the NY Times extended bestseller list at #30. BC will show up on the list starting on Sunday 01-16-11. 

Release Date: January 2011 ISBN: 978-0425239193 Returning characters: Rule and Lily Check out the BLOOD CHALLENGE bookshelf page

BLOOD CHALLENGE excerpt:

Yep.  All four tires, slashed and flat.

Sweat trickled beneath Lily Yu’s athletic bra as she circled her car, ran a clammy finger down her spine, and threatened to sting her eyes.  Not that it was hot.  The heat wave had finally broken, and San Diego was enjoying its customary September balminess.  But the city liked to make up for a total lack of rain this time of year by brewing up high humidity, especially in the mornings.  The sweat her body had pumped out during her run had nowhere to go.