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IMMORTAL ILLUSIONS PRINT RELEASE!

I’m thrilled that my second book in The Eternity Covenant series, Immortal Illusions, is now available in print at all your favorite booksellers! I hope everyone has as great a time reading it as I had writing it. Drop by www.UrsulaBauer.com for more information on The Eternity Covenant and all the players in The Game.

IMMORTAL ILLUSION (Eternity Covenant Book 2):
Outcast sorcerer Jack Madden has waited fifty years to take revenge against the Council of Wardens for wrongly convicting him of a crime, binding his powers beyond repair. When the Council turns to him to help retrieve four missing arcane artifacts, Jack decides it’s his best shot at vengeance. And Raine Spencer—fearful of her power and clueless about how to use it—is his perfect mystical surrogate and mark.

Raine loyally serves the Council of Wardens as a top Occult Operations Analyst, but she longs to take the sacred oath and become a knight. With the taint of Elven blood in her veins, she has a snowball’s chance in hell of making that dream a reality—until she is chosen by “Mad Jack” to act as a mystical surrogate.

Raine is ready to face down her fear of her wild Elven side, and team up with the most unprincipled scoundrel to ever haunt the halls of the Council of Wardens.

But is she ready to pay the price with her heart?

Excerpt:

Before Raine or the woman could blink, Jack launched the freaky dagger. It hit the woman square in the chest. The visage faded, and she collapsed. By the time she hit the floor, the human cover was gone, and in its place laid the corpse of a blue-skinned demoness. Raine had never encountered this strain of demon, neither in life or in study. The scope of darkness that Jack seemed comfortably a part of was nothing less than shocking. The dagger faded from view, treated no doubt, with more magic, to return to him. He was a sorcerer, she reminded herself. His trade was magic. Even with his powers bound, he was drenched in the stuff. So was she. Still, it repulsed her.

Jack did more voodoo over the laptop, sprinkling it with a pinch of smelly green herbs, before he closed it up, and stuffed it into a hidden pocket inside that crazy frock coat he liked to wear. “I probably should have warned you earlier. All the magic’s going to put you in a state. You may experience dizziness, nausea, and heightened sexual arousal. Try not to fight any of it, it will pass. You don’t realize it, but you and I are both soaking up ambient energy that will help us retrieve the artifacts. The side effects are worth the price, don’t you think?”

Fear made her mouth too dry to speak. Blatant lust made her blood thick. And her thighs wet. All he’d described so far had happened, but she didn’t think the sexual arousal was solely the fault of the magic. He bore the brunt of the blame for that. Jack chilling out was enough to set the world on fire. Seeing him in the thick of action, all wild and edgy, was pure sex.

“How do you stand it?” she croaked.

“How can you live without it?” he countered.