Now Des is back and needs Callie’s help because something is taking his male soldiers and putting his female soldiers into a death-like sleep. A close friendship develops and Callie begins to have feelings for Des and then suddenly he leaves her and doesn’t return. Each time he does something for her he adds a black bead to a bracelet on her wrist eventually leaving her with rows and rows of hundreds of black beads up her arm. His name is “The Bargainer” after all.Īfter helping Callie out, The Bargainer – Desmond Flynn – sends her to a school for the supernatural and while there she keeps calling on him for “favors” but really she just wanted his company as she had no friends. The Bargainer is a known fae amongst the supernatural community as this dark being who can get you anything you want/do anything for you, but you’ll owe him a favor in return. When she was a teenager she did something that required the help of The Bargainer. The novel follows Calypso, “Callie”, Lillis who is a siren. The series consists of 3 main novels and 1 novella: Rhapsodic, A Strange Hymn, Dark Harmony, and The Emperor of Evening Stars (the novella). Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.Over the past couple weeks I read The Bargainer series by Laura Thalassa. If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that's been awoken.
Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Something is happening in the Otherworld. At first it's just a chaste kiss-a single bead's worth-and a promise for more.įor the Bargainer, it's more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. 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. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.īut for one of his clients, he's never asked for repayment. He's a man who can get you anything you want. Only then will the beads disappear.Įveryone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past.
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