House of Cards (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe, #2)

New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit's been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won't take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies…oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this mess—and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy… "New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraodinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit's been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won't take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies ... oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this mess--and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy ..."--Back cover Margrit is summoned to negotiate a peace treaty amongst rival factions in the Old Races, but even as she does so, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Caught between a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who wont take no for an answer, a group of subversive selkies, she finds herself alone because the gargoyle who brought her into their world wont return her calls Mountain-dwelling shapeshifters, partners to the Free People, are disappearing, and word comes of a new evil: The Stone God, whose followers are known by the red stones they hold and the chaos they cause. When Rhenna of the Free People learns of a shapeshifter's capture, she must rescue him. Original