Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep & and awesome Peanut Butter Sandwich Recipe

I loved this book.  It's set in a familiar American south, but the population is unusual.  Elementals, dwarves, vampires and giants live along side humans in all segments of society.  Gin is a stone elemental; she can feel the stone and draw power from it.  She is also an assassin.

She's been hired to take out a man who's been embezzling from his company.  When she shows up for the hit, everything goes wrong and sets in motion a series of events that leaves her on the run, her handler/foster father dead and a cop as her partner.  Not her usual day.

Also working along side Gin and Detective Donovan Caine, is her foster brother Finn Lane.  He works as a banker, though has received the same career training as Gin.  He's a good man to 'have your back'.  Complicating the case ,s Mab Monroe.  She is wealthy, an elemental and has her fingers in every pie in town.  Not a woman to be crossed.

I read this book over the course of two days and loved every minute.  I was glad to learn that this series currently has 12 books as well as some short stories to fill in a few story gaps.  Visit author Jennifer Estep's website for a complete list. 

i was intrigued by one of the sandwiches that Gin makes for the boys.  Peanut butter and pumpkin, sounds strange, but  tempting.  I just had to try it.  I didn't think there was anything that could make a peanut butter sandwich taste better, but now I know, it's canned pumpkin.

Peanut Butter Pumpkin Sandwich

Mix equal amounts of peanut butter and canned pumpkin.
Spread on one side of one slice of bread.
Top with slices of banana.
Drizzle with honey and then dust with cinnamon.
Top with another slice of bread or eat open face.


Cover image from Jennifer's website.

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