title: Warrior
author: Northcott, Nancy
description: A Woman Tormented by Darkness
  
  Archaeologist Audra Grayson is finding out-of-place relics that could torpedo her already shaky career.  Now brilliant, sexy consultant Will Davis is sent to take over.  Worse, working on the site strengthens the evil shadow that nearly ruined her before, and she fears he not only suspects her of fraud but thinks she's crazy--unfit for the job.
  
   A Mage Who Must Oppose it At All Costs
  
  Will magically senses the darkness in Audra when they meet, and he vows to ignore their growing attraction.  When deadly ghouls target her project, Will realizes they want the odd relics to open a portal for demons from the Void between worlds, making everything on Earth an endangered species.
  
  
   The Fate of the World at Stake
  
  With ghoul attacks escalating and mage traitors in league with the enemy, time is running out for Will to stop the portal from opening. The chemistry between him and Audra threatens to combust, but the darkness within her may give the enemy its chance.  If she's its victim, he must free her.  If she's its ally, he must destroy the love of his life.
  
  Other books by Nancy Northcott:
   Sentinel (an extended-length novella)
   Renegade
   Protector (a novella)
   Guardian
  
  
  Shown here in reading order, the first three titles were published under the series label The Protectors but are also part of the Light Mage Wars story arc.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  