The Lord of Misrule: Reckoning (The Paranormal World, #5)
About
The festival ends tonight. So does everything else.
The winter solstice has arrived. The yokai clan leaders are assembled on Assante's private island. The ritual is hours away—and Alex Donati is the offering at its center.
She doesn't know that yet.
What she knows is that she's supposed to be a guest. That the man holding her is dangerous and magnetic in equal measure. That something in the food, the air, the heady atmosphere of the Saturnalia is eroding her judgment one breathless hour at a time. She came to Venice to expose a story. Now she's living inside it, and the difference between investigator and victim is narrowing fast.
The Goodfellow twins are already on the island—one tracking her through a hidden transmitter, the other preparing for a fight against shapeshifters who've had centuries to perfect killing. They have video evidence that could bring down the entire Council. They have each other. And they are very, very outnumbered.
What they don't have is a plan for what happens after.
When the ritual is interrupted and the masks finally come off—every mask, including Alex's—the three of them will have to shoot, run, and improvise their way off an island crawling with yokai before the solstice rite can be completed. The evidence they carry could change everything. Getting it out alive is another matter entirely.
Venice was where the story started. A stolen boat to Greece is where it ends.
For now.
For readers who crave: paranormal romance with dark edges • ancient cult rituals • Venetian Gothic finale • forbidden attraction payoff • shapeshifter action • investigative heroine • supernatural conspiracy resolution • escape thriller • series conclusion with open-ended promise
Reckoning is the fifth and final installment of the Lord of Misrule serial—where every secret is exposed, every alliance is tested, and the world will never look quite the same again.