With a slight bend of her elbows, she pushed her hands away from her body. Her fingers flared: palms out, thumbs turned down and in to present the backs of her hands. As she exhaled, her right leg floated with extraordinary control from the floor. She pressed the ball of her bare left foot into the polished wooden floorboards.

Isela Vogel danced for gods, no longer convinced anyone was listening.

Those talents once discovered were abused for warlike purposes in the fairly recent past, until a council of eight extremely powerful individuals known as 'Necromancers' made themselves known and destroyed, forced underground or regulated all the other supernaturals, parceling the Earth among themselves in various territories to watch over.So when her services are required by the Necromancer of Europe in person, Isela receives the news with some trepidation. It does not get very graphic but there is a torture scene perpetrated by the hero which may or may not pass muster whether the reader finds it acceptable (1) as a way to establish the hero is a harsh man and feared mostly for good reasons (2) because the victim could be considered to have had it coming (3) said victim also exhibits traits that may make the treatment less terminal than it would be for a regular human.The protagonist Isela belongs to an order who can channel the favor of entities generally referred to as 'the gods' through ecstatic dancing. Some sex scenes, all consensual and quite mildly described. (A free copy was received for review after nominating this book during its Kindle Scout run)Genre : Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy. Dancers and necromancers don't mix for a reason-and death is the least of their worries. As the danger increases with each thrilling discovery, trusting Azrael may be the only way to survive a conspiracy to destroy the fragile peace of a broken world.īut the greatest threat is their growing attraction. Isela is thrown into a world of supernatural creatures-demons after dark, witches in the shadows, shifters running wild in city parks-where the grace of gods can truly infuse the blood of the most mortal-seeming dancer. But why does she have to be so frustratingly stubborn-and intriguing? Azrael can make the dead walk, but he can't make the very much alive Isela toe any line. The Allegiance of Necromancers is powerful but not omnipotent, and when someone starts murdering his kind, Azrael must enlist a human godsdancer in order to track down the killer.

Though her prospective patron is a formidable necromancer with a heated and infuriating gaze, she can hardly refuse the payday. Then she's offered a job that will set her and her family up for life. Isela Vogel has the power to attract the favor of the gods for anyone who can pay her fee but struggles to hide the degenerative hip condition that will end her career.

Death's Dancer by Jasmine Silvera