Everybody needs to save the world, but when your heart is on the line it means a whole lot more.” That was a lot of fun for me to work with, and bringing Trent into the mix lets me up the stakes a little bit. “At this point, Rachel is starting to look at Trent in a new light, so romance has started to rear its ugly head, so to speak, in the Hollows. “The whole series is the coming to close in a couple of books, so ‘Ever After’ was my attempt to start to gather all the little threads and everything I needed for those last few books and work the story around it,” Harrison explained. The two have a love-hate relationship, but in this book, the balance shifts more towards love, according to Harrison. However, Rachel won’t give up without a fight and allies herself with the elf Trent Kalamack. Rachel tries to set things right, but is thwarted by a demon who wants to kill her and also kidnapped her goddaughter and friend. If it disappears completely, so does all the magic. In her latest adventure, Rachel learns the demonic realm paralleling the human world is shrinking. Set in Cincinnati on an Earth where magic and supernatural species are prevalent, Rachel is a witch and a detective. The new book features the return of series protagonist Rachel Morgan. “Ever After” (Harper Voyager $27.99) is being released today, and Harrison will sign copies tonight at 7 p.m. Readers found the books because of the titles, which is neat.”Īsked if the legendary Oscar-winning actor/director knows about this, Harrison replied with a laugh: “I haven’t heard from him.” Part of the reason I chose them is marketability. “It was my idea to stick with the Eastwood titles. “I think it’s especially fitting since much of the storyline revolves around the possible destruction of the ever-after, a secondary reality in the mythology of the series,” explained the New York Times best-selling novelist. It takes its cue from 2010’s “Hereafter,” a supernatural drama about communicating with the dead that Eastwood directed, according to Harrison, 46, whose real name is Dawn Cook and lives near Ann Arbor. All the titles of Kim Harrison’s urban fantasy novels in “The Hollows” series are riffs on titles of Clint Eastwood movies, and her latest -“Ever After,” the 11th book - is no exception.

Ever After by Kim Harrison