The Gift

The second book in Evette Davis’s urban fantasy The Council Trilogy, THE GIFT, is an erotic urban fantasy with an international scope. Olivia Shepherd is still learning the breadth and depth of her gifts as a witch, and how to control them. Her mother is murdered in Paris, and her estranged father, with whom she recently started building a relationship, is fighting for political power with the thousand-year-old vampire behind it, using election monitoring in Eastern Europe as a reason to send Olivia and a team to get evidence of the vampire’s corruption. Olivia is engaged to vampire William, but also attracted to his brother, also a vampire, who often serves as her bodyguard. Vampires, werewolves, and witches add the urban fantasy elements, as well as plenty of action, well-written erotica, and intrigue. Urban fantasy readers who enjoy international intrigue will find THE GIFT, the middle book of the trilogy, enticing, and look forward to book 3.