Retrievers Series

Praise for the Retrievers Series…

“…an entertaining, fast-paced thriller set in a world where cell phones and computers exist uneasily with magic, and a couple engaging and highly talented rogues solve crimes while trying not to commit too many of their own.”

– Locus

“Gilman delivers an exciting, fast-paced, unpredictable story that never lets up until the very end. I highly recommend this book to fans of urban fantasy, especially Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, or Laurell K. Hamilton.”

–Michael M Jones, SF Site

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The entire “Retrievers” series (STAYING DEAD, CURSE THE DARK, BRING IT ON, BURNING BRIDGES, FREE FALL and BLOOD FROM STONE) is available as audiobooks from Audible.com.

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Manhattan’s nightlife just got weirder. . . It starts as a simple job – but simple jobs, when you’re dealing with this magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing – and then bringing them back, no questions asked. Normally her job is stimulating, challenging [...]

Book 2: Curse the Dark

And you think magic is complicated? Once more Wren Valere’s game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She’d agreed to a bargain with one super-secret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei [...]

Book 3: Bring It On

Publisher: Luna (July 1, 2006) ISBN: 0-373-80240-4 (trade paper) Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval — all right, the theft — and she would use her magical talent to carry it out. Paycheck deposited, on to the next job. Now? Her relationship with [...]

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Book 4: Burning Bridges

Wren Valere used to be almost invisible. But now she’s not only being seen, she’s getting involved. Recent attacks against nonhuman Fatae have escalated into hate crimes against magic users in general—humans included. With the Mage Council distracted by internal power struggles, Wren is guilted into stepping up as spokesperson for the fragilely united Fatae [...]

Book 5:Free Fall

Book 5: Publisher: Luna Books (May 2008) ISBN:0373802676 The Cosa Nostradamus is in disarray; the Truce holding violence in check has been broken. Magical Manhattan is at war, and Wren Valere is left without her partner/lover Sergei, whose past loyalties keep him from her side just when she needs him the most.Hoping to keep herself [...]

Book 6: Blood From Stone

Book 6: (May 2009) ISBN:0373802978 Wren Valere’s job is driving her crazy. She’s still Manhattan’s most sought-after Retriever, but after last year’s deadly confrontation with the Silence, all this magic-user wants is a break. With her apartment going co-op and her relationship with the demon P.B. putting stress on her romance with partner Sergei, is [...]

From a future work by Sergei Didier

In history class we learn about Ben Franklin. Bon vivant, man of letters and science, inquiring mind. They don’t tell you that he was also one of the most influential Talents of his time. Or that he is credited — blamed, by some — for the formation of the first Mages’ Council in America.1 (The [...]