Dutch

"Full of sex, magic, and turmoil, this first installment in the series completely blew me away. The way Madhuri weaves Dutch and Juma's story is poetic and utterly beautiful. I can't remember the last time a book made to stop and think, wow." — #1 New York Times bestselling author Meredith Wild on Dutch I have three simple rules for any woman who crosses my path: No talking. No kissing. No touching. I'm incapable of the most common courtesy. I have no desire to try. My soul is wretched and perverse, even the blackest heart would cast a glance my way and know his lot is better. I've spent years holed up in the deepest, darkest parts of the city, fighting to keep Death and her Poochas from crossing the dead back to the living. My skill with a blade is bested only by my menace, my despair, my anguish - the strongest weapons I yield. Then I meet Juma Landry and it all goes to hell. She is beauty and... "Full of sex, magic, and turmoil ... poetic and utterly beautiful. I can't remember the last time a book made to stop and think, wow."--Meredith Wild, #1 New York Times bestselling author DUTCH is Madhuri Pavamani's first book in a stunning new, suspenseful urban fantasy series that will take you on a wild ride full of danger, love, sex, and magic. I've spent years holed up in the deepest, darkest parts of the city, fighting to keep Death and her Poochas from crossing the dead back to the living. My skill with a blade is bested only by my menace, my despair, my anguish - the strongest weapons I yield. Then I meet Juma Landry and it all goes to hell. She is beauty and love and sex and light, everything I am not. And she makes me want things I haven't desired in years. But the monsters of my life, the evil lurking in the dark corners of my soul, those places craven and vile, bind me to a past I cannot shake free. As the most skilled Keeper for the Gate, nothing and no one can prevent me from excelling at a job I never wanted. I do it because it is my legacy, a fate I cannot outrun, but when Juma becomes my next assignment, each of her nine lives to be ended by my hand, I must decide: the legacy I never wanted or the love I don't deserve. "Ms. Pavamani's DUTCH is the perfect melange of poetry, fantasy and rebellious raunch. Absolutely addictive!" --Helen Hardt, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "Dark. Sensual. Unputdownable. I devoured this book and can't wait for the next!"--Kate Baxter, author of The Untamed Vampire