Rhapsodic (The Bargainers 1) – Thalassa Laura (2021)

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, she has been collecting a bracelet of black beads around her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she has received. Only death or repayment can fulfill the obligations, and only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer, a man who can get you anything you want at a price. Everyone also knows that sooner or later, he always collects. But from one client, he has never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. For the Bargainer, it is more than a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld: fae warriors are disappearing, while the women are returned in glass caskets, each holding a child. Whispers speak of an awakened evil. To save his people, the Bargainer needs the help of the siren he spurned long ago, but his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie is one of them.