Lisa Shearin's Raine Benares Series

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My name is Raine Benares. I'm a seeker. The people who hire me are usually happy when I find things. But some things are better left unfound...

Raine is a sorceress of moderate powers, from an extended family of smugglers and thieves. With a mix of street smarts and magic spells, she can usually take care of herself. But when her friend Quentin, a not-quite-reformed thief, steals an amulet from the home of a powerful necromancer, Raine finds herself wrapped up in more trouble than she cares for. She likes attention as much as the next girl, but having an army of militant goblins hunting her down is not her idea of a good time. The amulet they're after holds limitless power, derived from an ancient, soul-stealing stone. And when Raine takes possession of the item, it takes possession of her.

Now her moderate powers are increasing beyond anything she could imagine--but is the resume enhancement worth her soul?

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My name is Raine Benares. Until last week, I was just a seeker--a finder of things lost and people missing. Now, I'm psychic roommates with the Saghred, an ancient stone with cataclysmic powers. Just me, the stone, and all the souls it's ingested over the centuries. Crouded doesn't even begin to describe it...

All Raine wants is her life back--which means getting rid of the stone and the power it possesses. To sort things out, she heads for the Isle of Mid, home to the most prestigious sorcery school, as well as the Conclave, the governing body for all magic users. It's also home to power-grubbing mages who want Raine dead and goblins who see her as a thief. As if that's not enough, Mid's best student spell singers are disappearing left and right, and Raine's expected to find them.

Lives are at stake, goblins are threateing to sue, mages are getting greedier, and the stones power is getting stronger by the hour. This could get ugly.

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My name is Raine Benares. I'm a seeker. People hire me when the need somehting found. I'm not usually the one being sought. But that all changed when I found the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone of unlimited power--and the bane of my existence. Now mages and madmen have me in their sights, not to mention demons...

An opened Hellgate leads to a demon infestation on the Isle of Mid, and while there's never an ideal time to face down demon hordes, it's hard to imagine a worse one. Already fighting the influence of the Saghred, Raine discovers she is also magically bonded to a dark mage and a white knight, two dangerous and powerful men on opposing sides--and Raine's stuck in the middle.

But with demons pouring though the Hellgate, Raine can't afford to be distracted. Turns out the demons want the key to unlock the Saghred. As a seeker, Raine should be able to find it first. As the azis of light and dark powers, she's a magical cataclysm waiting to happen...