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Jenn Bennett is an award-winning visual artist and author of the Arcadia Bell urban fantasy series from Pocket Books. Born in Germany, she’s lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe, the U.S., and the Far East. She believes rebellion is an under-appreciated art form, has conjured more demons than you’ve had hot lunches, and likes her fairy tales like she likes her coffee: dark. She currently lives near Atlanta with her film-geek husband and two very bad pugs.


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Kindling the Moon

Meet Arcadia Bell: bartender, renegade magician, fugitive from the law. . . .

Being the spawn of two infamous occultists (and alleged murderers) isn’t easy, but freewheeling magician Arcadia “Cady” Bell knows how to make the best of a crummy situation. After hiding out for seven years, she’s carved an incognito niche for herself slinging drinks at the demon-friendly Tambuku Tiki Lounge.

But she receives an ultimatum when unexpected surveillance footage of her notorious parents surfaces: either prove their innocence or surrender herself. Unfortunately, the only witness to the crimes was an elusive Æthyric demon, and Cady has no idea how to find it. She teams up with Lon Butler, an enigmatic demonologist with a special talent for sexual spells and an arcane library of priceless stolen grimoires. Their research soon escalates into a storm of conflict involving missing police evidence, the decadent Hellfire Club, a ruthless bounty hunter, and a powerful occult society that operates way outside the law. If Cady can’t clear her family name soon, she’ll be forced to sacrifice her own life . . . and no amount of running will save her this time.

This is the first book in the Arcadia Bell series. This series will need to be read in order. Book 2: Summoning the Night

Reviewer: Sarah Dizon
Review: Jun 21, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Magic, Demons
If you are a heavy reader of Urban Fantasy then this novel is exactly what you're looking for! If you've never read Urban Fantasy but you want to know what it's like then this is exactly what you're looking for! This is one of the best Urban Fantasy books I've read this year. The world that Bennett created in KINDLING THE MOON is fantastic! Even though there are elements that are obviously not real, the way

Summoning the Night

MAGICAL TRICKS. DEMONIC TREATS.

After narrowly escaping her fate as a sacrificial scapegoat, Arcadia Bell is back to normal. Or at least as ordinary as life can be for a renegade magician and owner of a tiki bar that caters to Earthbound demons. She’s gearing up for the busiest day of the year—Halloween—when a vengeful kidnapper paralyzes the community. The influential head of the local Hellfire Club taps Cady to track down the fiendish bogeyman, and now that she’s dating red-hot Lon Butler, the Club’s wayward son, she can hardly say no.

Cady and Lon untangle a gruesome thirty-year trail of clues that points to danger for the club members’ children. But locating the person behind the terror will require some metaphysical help from Cady’s loyal bar patrons as well as her potent new Moonchild powers—and she’d better figure it out before the final victim disappears and her own darkest secret becomes her biggest enemy.

This is the second book in the Arcadia Bell series and needs to be read in order. Book 1: Kindling the Moon

Reviewer: Sarah Dizon
Review: May 22, 2012
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Magic, Demons
Jenn Bennett is practically a master of Urban Fantasy. Things have settled down between Lon and Arcadia and they have set up some sort of routine. But there have been a few cases of children being taken and Arcadia is commissioned by Mr. Dare. He is part owner of the Hellfire Club. The commission involves helping to find the kids because they are all children of members of the Club. Arcadia doesn't want to

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