"Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, 1)" by Ilona Andrews

"Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, 1)" by Ilona Andrews
    https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Hidden-Legacy-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0062289233/
Book number one of a six book paranormal romance fantasy series.  I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Avon in 2014 that I just bought new from Amazon.  I have ordered the other five books in the series.
Totally cool start to a new series for me.  This makes the fourth series that I have read from Ilona Andrews, a husband and wife writing team.
The Hidden Legacy Universe is a complex place.  The Osiris serum that induced magical powers in humans was released to the general public in 1863 and the world was never the same.  The serum was banned after a while but the world was irreparably changed.  Families starting breeding children for strength in magical powers with breathtaking results. Magic users are segregated into five ranks: Minor, Average, Notable, Significant, and Prime.
The most feared mage is the pyrotechnic (fire).  Adam Pierce is a Prime and a fire mage.  And he is certifiably crazy but his mother loves him anyway.  Even when he kills a security guard while robbing a bank.
Nevada Baylor runs a very small detective agency in Houston, Texas ( ! ) that works on scammers and divorce cases.  She is a 25 year old hidden truthseeker, she can unerringly tell lies from truths and can sometimes force people to emit truths.  Her mother and father started the detective agency but there is a huge mortgage to a Prime Family that funded the effort to try to save her father from cancer.  Now the Prime Family wants them to find Adam Pierce and deliver him to his family, undamaged.
Mad Rogan is a Prime telekinetic and a noted combat veteran, famous for destroying a village in the Mexican war.  And Mad Rogan wants Adam Pierce too, undamaged is not a priority.
The authors have a very active website at:
    https://ilona-andrews.com/
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.7 out of 5 stars (15,154 reviews)
Lynn