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by Mark Everett Stone

For fifteen years Beck Corderoy has lived a quiet life in remote Silverville, Colorado, content to keep her head down and gun drawn as the town’s sheriff.

Then came FBI agent Shelman who involves her in a case regarding the inexplicable, magical deaths of Denver’s elite youth. It’s either that or be exposed as an unregistered wizard, a crime with penalties she’s been avoiding most of her life.

In Denver she faces murderous bikers, a sinister plot, a new designer drug flooding the streets and a dubious ally in the form of an underground mover and shaker, the Misfit Man. But what really throws her for a loop is Detective Mitch Lafferty, a handsome widower whose razor sharp mind could easily cut through the cocoon of lies in which she’s covered herself. Can she keep her eye on the ball and solve a series of deaths before it’s too late?

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 18, 2016

About the author

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Mark Everett Stone arrived in the U.S. at a young age and promptly dove into the world of the fantastic. Starting at age seven with the Iliad and the Odyssey, he went on to consume every scrap of Norse Mythology he could get his grubby little paws on. At age thirteen he graduated to Tolkien and Heinlein, building up a book collection that soon rivaled the local public library’s. In college Mark majored in Journalism and minored in English. Mark is feverishly working on his next book while his amazingly patient wife, Brandie, keeps him and their two sons, Aeden and Gabriel, in check.