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The series follows Trixa Iktomi, who owns a bar in Las Vegas and also works as an information broker in the supernatural world. Up to her neck in demons, on a search to find a powerful artifact and avenge a death, she has some help: two demon hunters that she's taken under her wing, Griffin and
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