A Mage's Gambit: New York Falling (A Malachi English book)

It's not a bad life, if you can keep your conscience out of the way.

Malachi English lives in the shadows of the New York that most people don’t have to see, walking a middle line between the humans and the hellkind, using magic and his wits to stay one step ahead.

If he watches his back and looks after Number 1, there’s good money to be made in cleaning up the mess that the demons leave behind.

But looking after Number 1 is tricky unless you're some kind of sociopath, which he isn't.  And when his ex-girlfriend gets abducted, Malachi and those he cares about are dragged into a conspiracy that threatens to wreck it all. A shadowy occult society are starting to make waves.  That's not unusual, but this time there’s something else, something on the edges of it all, that’s far more dangerous.

The bodies are starting to pile up, and Malachi’s about to find out just how far he’s prepared to go to protect the only family he’s got.

A Mage's Gambit is the first in the Malachi English series of books, an urban fantasy series with an ensemble cast of morally dubious magic users and psychopathic demons.