Jack Winters is afraid that he's going crazy and knowing his family's history that means the Arcane Society will be after him to kill him. The only help is to find the lamp that his great-great-whatever forge centuries ago and a dreamlight reader to reverse the effects of whatever is going on with him.

When Jack walks into Chloe Harper's office she knows that he's different and that he has a very strong talent. When she brushes up against where his hand touched her desk earlier she also learns that he'd killed someone. Amazingly enough she believes his story and jumps in to help him find the lamp he needs.

They head off to Vegas and a happen to stay one step ahead of the bad guys, most of the time, learning more about each other, the attraction they feel and this mysterious extra talent that Jack seems to have developed. Eventually, they contact J&J to set things straight and, of course, help take out a few more Nightshade operatives.

While this Arcane Society novel stands alone, and is the first in the Dreamlight Trilogy, if you've been following the series you'll enjoy that several characters from previous stories make a cameo appearance.

Sydney Kirkpatrick's father was killed in a robbery gone bad 20 years ago and now that the man responsible is days away from being executed she drives to San Quentin to tell him how he ruined her life. But she learns that the kid who robbed her father actually knew him and wasn't just after his money.

Sydney uses her time between doing forensic sketches as an FBI agent to research back through her father's case to try to figure out who might have actually killed him. In the mean time, she learns that someone has put out a hit on her.

Trying to bring her past into her present, while keeping her mother's new family safe, takes Sydney off of her usual straight-and-narrow path. Her skills as a forensic artist are invaluable when it comes to putting all the pieces together in a story that'll keep you guessing right up until the end.

Liz Monahan was having a nice weekend getaway with her current boyfriend until she began to pick up the tell-tale signs that he was married. This always happened to her and it really pissed her off. Flustered, she watched him get off the elevator for his room and then goes to her own. As she walks in she sees a dead guy in the bathroom and a hitman throws her on the bed. Luckily the hitman has a soft spot for six foot tall redheads and lets her overpower him so she can get away.

Agent Harper isn't having a very good day. His partner killed their informant. Then a civilian walks in on his clean up. After he lets her go he knows he has to get going fast before security comes check. His partner leaves him hanging and when he gets back to The Agency they are not happy. Especially, when evidence comes along that points to his partners death. He begins to connect the dots and knows that they're going to pin the screw up on him so he bails out the window of his office, uses his 'ready' bag and becomes "Bob Anderson" so he can go back to the last place his partner was on assignment and find out what went wrong.

The first thing that happens is that he runs into Liz, who is the reference librarian for a pharmaceutical company that "Bob" now works for as an accountant. She freaks out runs right into her, now ex-, boyfriend. Yep, she kicked him out when he didn't believe that she'd seen a dead guy and the hitman and by the time she gets home "Bob" has broken into her house and searched for clues to connect her to the theft and sale of extremely dangerous, pharmacological superbugs.

While "Bob" and Liz are on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of the bad guys so they can stop a biological pandemic from happening there are some laugh out loud moments. First, there's the running discussion of Liz's tattoo and what it means. Then there are the random calls from her mom. Also, there's the budding chemistry that builds and builds as the two get to know each other better as they run for their lives and solve the crisis before the end of the world as we know it.