Friday Memes: Dragon Spawn by Eileen Wilks

Happy Friday everybody!

Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

The sunlight glittered on ocean waves, the air sparkled with sorceri, and the baby he held was asleep.

Friday 56:

She couldn't fail to sense Sam's mind when he was this close, but she could -- with effort -- refrain from "staring" at him. Was it her mindsense that found the dark splendor of Sam's mind so riveting? Or her mind?

This week I'm reading Dragon Spawn by Eileen Wilks. This is the 13th book in her World of the Lupi urban fantasy series. I've been following along since the beginning. Here's the description from Amazon:

The New York Times bestselling author of Mind Magic returns as FBI agent Lily Yu gets some very bad news…

Lily learns she was right. Tom Weng—a powerful sorcerer allied with the Old One who keeps trying to take over the world—is still alive. But that's not the worst. Weng is a dragon spawn, the product of a botched hatching given a human form in an attempt to keep him from going mad. A failed attempt.

Meanwhile, Lily’s husband Rule is facing a Challenge to the death. Then there’s the possible reappearance of another sorcerer. But none of that matters when their enemy strikes out of nowhere in the worst way possible. Lily must face a nightmare and return to a place she never wanted to see again. The place where she died…