Chest of Bone - The Afterworld Chronicles, #1

A Mage. A Monster. A Mission. And a Melody That Binds. What if you see the world through a blindfold? What if you are sightless to the magic that surrounds you? What if you are unaware that you are the magic?Clea Artemis Reese, a magical creature blind to her nature, lives in the mundane world, our world. When the brutal murder of Clea's mentor unlocks her Mage powers, she begins to grasp her extraordinary destiny.
Fierce in her determination to avenge her mentor, she's forced to team up with the compelling James Larrimer in her hunt for the killers. Larrimer is a predator who stalks traffickers of endangered animals. Yet he masks his reality-a strange and deadly one-even as he hunts Clea, the most exotic creature of all. When Clea and Larrimer learn of her mentor's ties to the mysterious Chest of Bone, the ultimate source of otherworldly power, they clash with the malignant forces bent on obtaining the mystical chest.
Have Clea and Larrimer the strength and courage to prevent the Chest from falling into corrupt hands and wreaking havoc and death? Or will they die in the process?