A successful fantasy writer whose novels portray her real-life existence as a Celestial Blade Warrior, bound to protect innocents from supernatural threats, Tess Noncoir finds her principles tested when she discovers a group of captive faeries performing against their will in a Las Vegas casino. This third series outing (after Hounding the Moon and Moon in the Mirror) for Frost's complex and quirky heroine reveals conflicts in her personal life and also in her relationship to the Citadel she has left behind. The author uses Las Vegas and its desert surroundings to good advantage, creating an atmosphere of affluence and decadence amid the stark beauty of ancient places. For urban fantasy fans. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.