Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited first book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to.

Callypso 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 Callie has been wearing a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she once received. Only death or repayment will fulfill her obligations.

Everyone 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. But for Callie, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. 

When Callie finds the Bargainer 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 admitting a truth--a single bead's worth--acknowledging the attraction between them. But the Bargainer is after more than just rekindling their connection. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one, and only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to her breast. 

For the Bargainer to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. If she can forgive him.

Laura Thalassa spent much of her childhood in Fresno, California, with her nose buried in Anne Rice, R.L. Stine, and other authors. Stine and Katie MacAlister, whose writings piqued her interest in writing her own stories. She has worked as a law student, an independent editor, a medical intern, and an archaeologist, among other things. She is the author of The Unearthly, a young adult paranormal series, as well as The Vanishing Girl, a new adult science fiction novel. From her home in Santa Barbara, where she lives with her fiance, author Dan Rix, she is currently writing on the sequel.