Author: Molly Harper
Narrator: Amanda Ronconi & Jonathan Davis
Series: Mystic Bayou (Book 1)
Publication: Audible Originals (January 23, 2018)
Length: 6 hours and 24 minutes
Description: The first book in Molly Harper's uproariously funny, sinfully sexy new Mystic Bayou series!
Anthropologist Jillian Ramsay's career has taken a turn south.
Concerned that technology is about to chase mythological creatures out into the open (how long can Sasquatch stay hidden from Google maps?), the League for Interspecies Cooperation is sending Jillian to Louisiana on a fact-finding mission. While the League hopes to hold on to secrecy for a little bit longer, they're preparing for the worst in terms of human reactions. They need a plan, so they look to Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where humans and supernatural residents have been living in harmony for generations. Mermaids and gator shifters swim in the bayou. Spirit bottles light the front porches after twilight. Dragons light the fires under crayfish pots.
Jillian's first assignment for the League could be her last. Mystic Bayou is wary of outsiders, and she has difficulty getting locals to talk to her. And she can't get the gruff town sheriff, Bael Boone, off of her back or out of her mind. Bael is the finest male specimen she's seen in a long time, even though he might not be human. Soon their flirtation is hotter than a dragon's breath, which Bael just might turn out to be....
My Thoughts: This was an entertaining urban fantasy. Jillian Ramsay is an anthropologist who has been sent by the League for Interspecies Cooperation to Louisiana to explore Mystic Bayou, a small town where shifters and humans have been getting along for generations.
It is Jillian's first survey mission. While the local bear shifter who is the mayor is very welcoming, the sheriff Bael Boone is much less friendly and much more suspicious. Strange things are happening in town; some humans are developing unexplained powers. Bael's thought is that it comes from living so close to the Rift where magic happens.
When someone starts killing these humans who have developed magical powers right after Jillian has interviewed them, suspicions start to rise that Jillian has something to do with it. And Bael is developing feelings for Jillian that Jillian isn't trusting. She's just out of a bad relationship with a boyfriend who stalked her and didn't want to let her go. And she's only in town long enough to do her research and complete her survey.
Learning that Bael is a dragon shifter is a surprise for her. Dragons are the most secretive and reclusive of all the various kinds of shifters. So little is known about them that Jillian has no idea what she's getting into by beginning a relationship with him.
Jillian, who has developed magical powers of her own after a close encounter with the Rift, is almost the killer's final victim. But she almost rescues herself before Bael can find her and finish the deal.
This was a fun story. I enjoyed the dual narrators and the switch between viewpoint characters on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
I bought this one April 30, 2021. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one April 30, 2021. You can buy your copy here.
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