Spellbinder: A Love Story with Magical Interruptions » (First Edition)

Melanie Rawn was born in California, and graduated from Scripps College with a BA in history. She has worked as a teacher and as an editor, before she wrote her bestselling "Dragon Prince" trilogy. Those books were followed by a second trilogy, "The Dragon Star", which has also sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Melanie took a break from writing from 1995 to 2005, due to family obligations. After the death of her mother she began to write again, and Spellbinder is the result.

Holly McClure has it all: beauty, success, a great apartment in Manhattan, good friends, and a very sexy new boyfriend. And one more thing…a very rare magical talent. Holly is a witch.

There is magic in the big city…literally. New York City has a small, and very discrete, population of witches and wizards and Holly is one of them, though she tries to keep magic out of her daily life.

But trouble has come to the City, in the form of a black coven run by a murderous psychopath. And he wants Holly, for the power of her blood.

The danger to Holly is extreme. Her passionate affair will be derailed by those who want to drain her for their own purposes, and her dearest friends will be put in peril of their lives. In the end it will be magic against magic, and Holly McClure will have to risk all for life and love.

Publishers Weekly

In a departure from her fire-breathing fantasy Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies, Rawn conjures the sex lives and turf wars of modern Manhattan witches in this entertaining if overstuffed novel. Sexy, macho U.S. Marshal Evan Lachlan adores novelist and witch Holly McClure for her beauty and charm; Holly's coven values her for her blood, which has the unique ability to make spells stick. While Holly and Evan's romance heats up, Holly's Circle, presided over by powerful Judge Elias Sutton Bradshaw, struggles to defuse a sociopath Satanist, Noel. Witch and mundane worlds collide after Noel kills a famous evangelist's son during a kinky black magic ritual starring renegade novelist and witch, Denise Jos phe. This cauldron bubbles over with spells, rituals, sex and even a vampire or two. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.