After bringing the corruption of her former boss at the San Francisco office of The Protectorate to light, and getting him fired, Alma Bellrose is dismayed to learn that a famed demon hunter will be replacing him. She knows that they keep tabs on her and the changeling she once saved from execution, Sebastien, so to distract The Protectorate she agrees to go undercover at a week-long party hosted by well-known witches. Right off Alma knows something is wrong when she doesn't see any fae on the property, a sure sign that a "demon", or more correctly, a possessing spirit is present. But seriously, all of these people are behaving suspiciously, except the actual "demon," and it's not long until the bodies start to pile up, starting with the hostess apparently committing suicide.

There is no shortage of single witches struggling to get by in the urban fantasy genre and I admit that I picked up the first book in this series because Barnes and Noble offered it for free. I went on to buy the other five books because they were better written than most and Galway put some real creativity into her magical world of witches and fae creatures. Alma Bellrose is about as disgraced as a witch from such an old and powerful family can get and thought moving to Silverpool, which is hidden from the mundane world and most witches because of the magical pool that attracts all types of fae creatures, would keep her under the radar as far as the Protectorate is concerned. That might have been more successful if she hadn't dated Silverpool's Protector, but considering that he dated almost every woman in town it wouldn't have been a problem if he didn't wind up dead on the bridge leading in and out of town. Alma tries to solve the murder just to get the Protectorate agents out of town before they realize that her father the infamous thief and the changeling she refused to kill when she her self was a Protectorate agent are both hanging around. Investigating the mystery will force Alma to quit hiding away and actually get acquainted with her town and it's residents. She finds oddities like the big box store that always has just what you're looking for no matter how unlikely and a nascent witch who has no idea what she is or that the magical world exists at all.