Water to Burn
core novel 2011 Nola O'Grady
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.73 (476 ratings, collected 2026-10-07) |
| Page count | 304 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756406912 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Just when Nola O'Grady thinks she has it all, the Agency makes her head of its San Francisco branch, and the city's troubles arrive on her desk: rogue waves that drown innocents on the beaches for no natural reason, a Chaos cult that was supposed to be dead and is not, and the Chaos masters who orchestrated the events of License to Ensorcell, still at large and felt in new ways. Ari Nathan, now her lover as well as her partner, brings a haunted past of his own into the office. Then Nola's brother drags them both into a rescue mission in a radioactive alternate dimension, one of the deviant world-levels Nola's family has a knack for stumbling into, and the fragile balance between Order and Chaos that she is sworn to keep comes under strain from her own blood.
Where it sits
- Universe: Nola O'Grady
- Series: Nola O'Grady core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Katharine Kerr
Notes
- From the series record (Nola O'Grady): Katharine Kerr's urban fantasy of psychic agent Nola O'Grady of the Agency, an organisation so secret even the CIA does not know it exists, and her Israeli partner Ari Nathan, keeping the balance between Chaos and Order in a San Francisco full of werewolves, alternate dimensions and Nola's own unmanageable family. Four novels (DAW, 2011-2012); the publisher declined further volumes.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Nola O'Grady: position 2 of 4: previous License to Ensorcell (2011) · next Apocalypse to Go (2012)
Sources
- Katharine Kerr (official site)
- Penguin Random House (series page)
- Most Recommended Books (series guide)
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