Amazon Ink by Lori Devoti

Mel has a lot on her mind. She’s raising a teenage daughter, living in a renovated High School, has her mother and her grandmother living with her, and just got two dead Amazon girls left on her doorstep. Determined to find the murderer of her tribeswomen, and answer her own questions about her past, Mel has to summon the courage to face the tribe she left behind.

People seem to keep getting in her way however, particularly men. One is a very talented, secretive, and sexy tattoo artist she just hired to work in her shop. And then there's Detective Reynolds who makes it difficult for her to concentrate when he’s constantly poking his nose where it doesn’t belong … and it’s getting harder and harder to explain why so many odd things happen in her house.

Madison, Wisconsin is not the most exciting setting for a fantasy novel (no offense to the Badgers — I love Bucky!), but still Read More