Thief of Light by Denise Rossetti features the irresistible Erik the Golden who was granted a gift from the gods that he misused as a young man.  Erik has attempted to atone for his past misdeed but has remained ignorant of his true mission in life.  Pruella is the owner-partner and business manager of the courtesans of The Garden of Nocturnal Delights in Caracole, a city that is supported on a number of titanplants which are tended by beings that everyone except a dark Necromancer and his cohorts believe to be myths.  Erik is attracted to the no-nonsense Pruella and discovers that she may be the only person that he has met who is able to resist the blandishments of his magical voice.  Together they embark on a mission to save her home city and possibly redeem his soul if they can truly learn to trust each other beyond the explosive and sensual relationship they seemed destined to experience.

Thief of Light is a very imaginative fantasy filled with eroticism and likeable characters.  More description of the political structure of Caracole and the various factions of society such as the technomages and purists would probably help sort out the confusion between the fantasy and sci-fi elements of the story but it is possible that this is covered in the first of this series, The Flame and the Shadow, which has an enjoyable teaser included at the end of this book.  This is an author worth watching.

A luminous new erotic fantasy romance from the author of The Flame and the Shadow.

In the subtropical city of Caracole, Erik the Golden is widely known as irresistible-his Voice an instrument of incredible pleasure. But the Voice is a curse as much as a blessing, for once Erik used it to steal a soul, and now he must pay.

Pruella Takimori McGuire is the business manager for the beautiful courtesans of the Garden of Nocturnal Delights. She deals in numbers, not Magick, and when Erik turns his charms in her direction, she sees only vanity, not a golden gift. If Erik cannot use his power to win Prue's heart, how can he truly possess her?

And all the while, a far darker power corrupts the foundations of Caracole-the Necromancer, who feasts on souls. When the Necromancer's hired assassin kidnaps Prue, Erik must harness his air Magick to recover the woman he has come to love more than life itself.