Of Blood and Fire - Lingering Sea Series, Book 2 (Unabridged) (Jennifer Jenkins).

In the second book of the series, Lark becomes an independent agent in the blood & fire business. Her specialty is surveillance, tracking, and reconnaissance for real-estate buyers and clients when they want to be sure that their next purchase is a good investment. She has orders to seek out people known to have sold themselves into servitude in order to use their human lives as collateral for buying stakes and controlling interest in various prominent houses and buildings in cities all over the Empire.

Lark works undercover and is exposed to many dangers, from becoming a target of mob-law mafias and the contract killers for whom they work, to her own recurring dreams and hallucinations that turn dangerously vivid when she has the urge to track someone down and bring them to justice, even if it means leaving herself vulnerable.

The third half of Of Blood & Fire features a fully developed sense of side characters who are essential to the plot while also