title: Smoke & MirrorZ
author: Lucas, Cynthia
description: NOMINEE: BEST PARANORMAL, 2014 RONE AWARDSFIVE STAR, CROWNED HEART REVIEW: Cynthia Lucas finds an incredibly unique twist that will delight paranormal fans! With a magician's touch, the author conjures up a magical story that comes to life with mystery and seduction! This is an exceptional and rare look at jinn set in an utterly enchanting story. ~ Margaret Faria - InD'Tale MagazineFIVE PLATINUM RINGS REVIEW: Will Z & Scheri be able to get through a new nightmare when there is a sadistic killer involved, one who has no plans of letting Scheri escape? Will Z's magic be enough to save her from the demented mind of a madman? You absolutely MUST read this book & find out!Not only was this book well-written, it was absolutely a perfect mix of breath-taking & heart-breaking and I, for one, cannot wait til Ms Lucas's next novel to hit the shelves! ~ Vicki Rose, Platinum Book Reviews FIVE STAR REVIEW: Cynthia always delivers....you get sucked into another world when you read one of her stories....There was lots of twists and turns. I loved every minute of it. ~ Jeannette Weber - I Heart Books ReviewsFOUR STARS: This story was fantastic and took me for a ride....it was full of suspense and action, love, hate horror.....I could not put this book down. ~ Michelle Lewis - Book Talk ReviewsA woman on the run....in fear for her life A down on his luck genie with an attitude working as a carnival magician. With limited powers and his own existence in serious danger, can he find the love in his heart and the power in his soul to save her?Scheharazade 'Scheri' Bloom is on the run after marrying the man of her dreams...a wealthy lawyer who turns out to be more like a monster from her nightmares. After enduring the first of many of his psychotic rages and physical abuse, she soon suspects he may have murdered his last girlfriend and finds herself living in fear for her own life and forced to be a prisoner in her own home, because no matter how many times she tries to escape, he has the money, power and connections to have her tracked down and brought back.After finally finding a way to escape, she takes to the road and with the little bit of money she'd saved up running out fast, she soon finds herself drawn to a small-town carnival, where she hopes to make a few untraceable dollars working a ride or concession stand. Instead she meets the enigmatic and egotistical magician known as 'Z'.Amazed by Z's skills in illusions, like the audiences who come to see him day in and day out, she soon finds herself in danger again...not so much from her abusive husband as from everything she doesn't want to feel from the moment she lays eyes on the handsome entertainer who looks like an Arabian Knight come to life and seems to sense every secret she can't tell him about herself.What Scheri doesn't know is that that Azizi ab'd al Jadu, the man known as 'Z' is harboring a few secrets himself. Magic is real, and not all illusions are 'smoke and mirrors'. Z is no mortal man, but a half-breed Ifrit Jinn....a down on his luck genie, living as a carny here in the world of man. Born out of the forbidden love of a Jinn and a disobedient Angel, he is on the run from his own kind for refusing to abide the laws of both Jinn and Allah's Watchers. And after breaking their First Law and taking human form of his own free will to come through the large gold mirror that is his portal into the world of humans....he finds his once vast powers limited by the mortal realm and all the wondrous and distracting sensations of a human body.Z has little interest in being anyone's savior...but when Scheri's husband finally tracks her down with the help of one of Z's most dangerous enemies, Z soon finds that it's going to take more than magic to protect the woman who has stolen the heart he didn't know he had. Can he somehow regain the power he needs to save her before it's too late?