House of Cards

THE POINT OF NO RETURN

The dangerous, mysterious world of the Old Races haunts defense lawyer Margrit Knight. Her gentle, gorgeous gargoyle lover, Alban, trapped in stone by day and human at night, can only be part of her life in a limited fashion, and even that means keeping secrets from Margrit’s mortal friends.

But when they too are drawn into orbit around charming dragonlords, ruthless vampires, and selkies determined to set their own fate, the only way Margrit can protect the people around her is to negotiate a peace treaty among the rival factions—a decision that means embedding herself as a permanent fixture in the Old Races’ complex political structure.

But Margrit’s influence and her furious rejection of ancient, embedded Old Races’ laws are not entirely welcome. Alban is on her side, always...but that means risking everything he has to defend her, while Margrit herself is forced to make bloody choices that will set an entire faction of the Old Races against her...