Psychic agent Nola O'Grady is a member of secret government agency dating back to the Cold War. When her boss tells her via trance communiqué that she is expected to babysit Israeli secret agent Ari Nathan, supposedly a rep from Interpol, she reluctantly does her duty. It is bad enough she is back in her hometown of San Francisco, close enough for her mother to drive her nuts (not that she doesn't appreciate the other members of her family, mostly) without having an arrogant good-looking man thrown into the mix. The O'Grady family has been known for generations to have psychic gifts and other powers. Teenaged Michael has even been trying to transform himself into a were change, hoping that is his gift, perhaps in reaction to the loss of their brother, Patrick, who was shot in wolf form. Her family is more than willing to do what they can to help (except for her mother, of course). Nola would eagerly accept any help on offer, if only that didn't mean putting them in the line of fire.

Agent Nathan is in town trailing a killer who is targeting people with silver bullets. He is beyond skeptical about anything paranormal and is just as reluctant to be working with a psychic agent as Nola is to have him around. But silver bullets could mean his case has a slant that places it within Nola's agency's jurisdiction, particularly when Nola discovers all the victims were suspected weres.

Katherine Kerr is known for her Deverry Series reaching from Daggerspell in the mid 1980s to The Silver Mage in 2009. With LICENSE TO ENCORCELL she brings her honed and polished skills as a storyteller to the genre of Urban Fantasy with fantastic results. Combining her gift for creating memorable characters with a quirky sense of humor she leads us into a suspenseful and exciting plot with hints of romance and loads of offbeat otherworldly elements. This first in the Nola O'Grady series promises a fun and funky ride and I have to tell you I can't wait for book two!

Book Summary

Psychic Agent Nola O'Grady isn't sure returning to San Francisco, and living near her unusual family, is a good idea. Her job, with a psychic agency so obscure even the CIA doesn't know it exists, can be perilous, and she's afraid of the relatives getting involved.

Then the Agency saddles her with Israeli secret agent Ari Nathan, and she has a bigger problem on her hands, because tact and compromise are not Ari's strong points. Their mission is to track down a serial killer obsessed with werewolves. He sees them everywhere and shoots whenever he thinks he has one in his sights. Ari assumes the man's psychotic, but in truth he's murdering actual werewolves. Nola should know. Her younger brother Pat, a lycanthrope, was the first victim.

Can Nola's psychic talents and Ari's skill with guns keep them alive long enough to unravel the greater mystery behind the killings? Can they save the werewolves and the world while stopping Nola's family from running headlong into danger?