Book Beginnings + Friday 56: The Solstice Countdown (SPI Files #7) by Lisa Shearin

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two.

This week I'm featuring The Solstice Countdown (SPI Files #7) by Lisa Shearin. This is one of the most fun urban fantasy series I've ever read, so I was ecstatic to get my hands on this newest installment.

About the Book

As an agent of Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI), I know that evil doesn’t take a vacation, but this time it made an exception and followed me on mine.

I’m Makenna Fraser, seer for SPI, and I’m taking my boyfriend, goblin dark mage Rake Danescu, home for the holidays to meet my family.

Weird Sisters is a small town in the North Carolina mountains that was built on a network of ley lines that magnify psychic and paranormal energies. It doesn’t show up on Google Maps, was named after the three witches in Macbeth, and the first word of the town name perfectly describes most of its human and supernatural citizens.

A stranger has come to town, bringing with him a dormant source of primordial evil. Soon, magically gifted locals start vanishing, and the power of the ley lines is turned against us, cutting us off from the outside world and any source of help.

For a town and its people steeped in magic, and my family sworn to protect both, it’s a race against time to use a local winter solstice phenomenon to free the town from its prison. But first, I must trust a father I’ve never known to fight and defeat an awakening evil that’s existed since the beginning of time. If we fail, and it is unleashed, the world will not survive.

Book Beginnings

For a welcome change, I was doing what normal people did for the holidays.

I was going home to visit my family for Christmas and bringing my boyfriend to meet them.

That was where 'normal' screeched to a crashing halt.

Friday 56

Agnes Millicent Fraser, matriarch of both the Fraser family and the town of Weird Sisters, had decided what she was going to do, and no one with a lick of sense was about to change her mind.

What have you been reading lately?