Unnatural Magic

Bargains with Beasts, Book 1

By: Stacia Stark

Narrated by: Lia Langola

I was kept ignorant and sheltered my whole life.

Now that I’m free, I’ll never be coddled again.

Even if the smoking hot werewolf king thinks coddling is perfectly acceptable.

Because something’s hunting humans in my city. Something that kills like a werewolf, but displays those kills publicly–as if taunting the authorities.

Thanks to my spiffy new agreement with the police, it’s my job to figure out just what that something is.

But whoever is hunting the good citizens of Durham is also taunting me.

When my investigation takes me to the local werewolf pack–and the overprotective male in charge–I know I’m in trouble.

Can I solve these murders without losing my freedom...or my life?

Or will the creature make me regret ever thinking I was strong enough to be out in the world alone?

If you like K.F Breene, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Faith Hunter, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jennifer Estep, Shannon Mayer, Kim Harrison, and Dannika Dark, you’ll love this series.

Listen to it now.

©2022 Stacia Stark (P)2025 Mountaindale Press

Love this series!

Need more Evie and Nathaniel’ knew i would love them when I read Dannika and Samuel’s books! Cannot wait to see what happens next- just hope Evie doesn’t take as many books to realize her mate is not her enemy as Dannika took

Absolutely love this author!!!

Story is so good and narrator draws you in!!
An absolutely must read author and series!!!!!!!!

Happy to stay in this world a little longer.

I hadn’t planned to read this series, but had to so I could finally get the answers I wanted. I was surprised by the way Deals with Demons went. Kinda thought we should solve the mom’s killer and end with the battle against Lucifer, then the last book could be included in this spiff and cover a couple of different couples.

No to the Narrator

I love this series. I love the characters, the plot progression, and the dialogue. This story was a good continuation of the series. But if you are going to narrate a book, please know how to pronounce the words. If the narrator had listened to even one of the previous books she may have noticed just how MANY of the names she was pronouncing incorrectly. It was INCREDIBLY irritating. It was also unfortunate because the narrator’s voice was ok, but the vocabulary!

The story was FANTASTIC!

Absolutely loved this book, it couldn’t have been better imo but I realllly struggled with the narration and miss the voice of Evie from Deals With Demons. However it wasn’t a deal breaker.