The Key of Darkness — Sonya Clark

At the Bradbury Institute, a private organization dedicated to the study of magic and the occult, adventure and romance are the best benefits.



Eve Kane had one last task to perform for her late employer: deliver a locked box to a mysterious organization. But when the box is stolen, she finds herself down the rabbit hole, pulled into a world of magic and danger - and people who might not only accept her psychic gifts, but help her understand them. How far is she willing to go to finally find a place where her gifts are an asset instead of something to be feared, a place where she can be herself?



Pete Cadkin's job as head of security for Bradbury is to retrieve the stolen box, the contents of which are a supernatural loose nuke known as the Key of Darkness. The true purpose of the ancient grimoire is murky, but it's far too deadly an artifact to risk letting it fall into the wrong hands. Pete is eager to do whatever it takes to get the grimoire back, until it looks like the best way to do that is to use Eve as bait. She's too soft, too beautiful, too appealing to the dark corners of himself he's struggled to keep hidden.



The stolen ancient spellbook is bad enough trouble, but Eve Kane could open up the Pandora's box that is Pete Cadkin's secret past. And if that happens, all of Bradbury could find itself in the crosshairs of a dark sorcerer.