Review: Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

Author: Ilona Andrews
Publisher: Avon
Date of publication: November 2018

Nevada Frida Baylor and Connor Ander Rogan cordially invite you to join their wedding celebration. Summoning, weather manipulation, and other magical activities strictly forbidden.

Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle. Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride’s priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother’s home. Someone is cheating, someone is lying, and someone is plotting murder.

To make this wedding happen, Catalina will have to do the thing she fears most: use her magic. But she’s a Baylor and there’s nothing she wouldn't do for her sister's happiness. Nevada will have her fairy tale wedding, even if Catalina has to tear the mansion apart brick by brick to get it done.

Diamond Fire is a novella in the Hidden Legacy series.  It takes place a few weeks after the events of Wildfire.  This one focuses on Nevada's sister, Catalina.  She has been declared a prime and the head of her house.  Her magic makes people fall in love with her.  As she is helping plan her sister's wedding, she is hired to find a missing heirloom within the Rogan household.

I really enjoyed this short story.  Catalina is just about 18 and is slowly coming into her own.  She has lived her whole life not really trusting anyone outside her family because she could never be sure if they liked her for herself or because of her magic's influence.  Here we find out more about her magic and what she can actually do with it.  I also loved the peek into her thoughts about how she has felt most of her life.  

The mystery was good.  I loved the reveal of the missing tiara.  In her search Catalina found out a lot more than the House of Rogan bargained for. That rehearsal scene was priceless! There is a lot of the humor that I have come to love from this series as well.  It looks like the next full length book will focus on Catalina and Alessandro.  I can't wait to read it!