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And Pretty Maids All In A Row (2015)

by Barbara Hambly
(#9 in Windrose Chronicles (Short Story))

When the head of a Los Angeles criminal gang seeks out exiled wizard Antryg Windrose for some wizardly advice about his love-life, Antryg suspects trouble. He's right: the gang-lord's girlfriend is a lamia, a trans-dimensional soul-drinker whose victims become addicted to the process of having their souls slowly drained. Though the crook wants his freedom, he also doesn't want to give her up - and in the meantime, she is absorbing cunning, ruthlessness, and criminal intent… and is hunting others…