title: Magic to the Bone (Allie Beckstrom, Book 1)
author:  Devon Monk 
description: Starred Review. In this clever and compulsively readable debut, set in a magical analog of Portland, Ore., Allie Beckstrom is a Hound, able to trace a spell back to its caster. When a young boy is injured by a spell, Allie tracks it back to her estranged father, Daniel, a ruthless businessman who protests his innocence. Then someone magically disguised as Allie kills Daniel. Allie and sexy corporate operative Zayvion race against time to find the answers. Magic is common in this alternate universe, but using it always incurs a physical or mental cost, rendering it a commodity to be bought and sold, used and abused. Allie's internal and external struggles are brilliantly and tightly written, creating a multifaceted character who will surprise, amuse, amaze and absorb readers. <i>(Nov.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
    
  
    *  _For my family_
    *  _Acknowledgments_
    *  _Chapter One_
    *  _Chapter Two_
    *  _Chapter Three_
    *  _Chapter Four_
    *  _Chapter Five_
    *  _Chapter Six_
    *  _Chapter Seven_
    *  _Chapter Eight_
    *  _Chapter Nine_
    *  _Chapter Ten_
    *  _Chapter Eleven_
    *  _Chapter Twelve_
    *  _Chapter Thirteen_
    *  _Chapter Fourteen_
    *  _Chapter Fifteen_
    *  _Chapter Sixteen_
    *  _Chapter Seventeen_
    *  _Chapter Eighteen_
    *  _Chapter Nineteen_
    *  _Chapter Twenty_
    *  _MAGIC ON THE STORM_
  
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   **Praise for** _ **Magic to the Bone**_  
  
    
    
  
  “Loved it. Fiendishly original ... a stay-up-all-night read. We’re going to be
  hearing a lot more of Devon Monk.”
  
    
  
  —Patricia Briggs, #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Bone Crossed_
  
    
    
    
  
  “[A] gritty setting, compelling, fully realized characters, and a frightening
  system of magic-with-a-price that left me awed. Devon Monk’s writing is
  addictive, and the o