Squelched

by Robinne Weiss

Tory’s life is comfortably routine. She has her cat, her job at the Laurel Glen Library, and her friend Jess. She’s happy and content ... until she loses her job, finds her deadbeat dad, and discovers she’s a monster with deadly powers. FBI Agent Nico Michaelson was hoping for the assignment to launch his career. Instead he’s stuck following Tory and her crazy cat. But is she really the monster the government believes she is? And is he willing to kill her, or would he rather ask her out? Sparks fly in this lighthearted urban fantasy in which the only likely casualty is one man’s heart.

258 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2020

About the author

Over the course of my career, I have been pleased to call myself an educator, entomologist, heritage interpreter, and an agroforestry extension agent, among other things. Through it all, I have written stories and poetry for my own pleasure. I published my first writing as a child in the 1970s, and used to confound my science teachers with poetry, scribbled at the end of essay questions. Now, after completing several novels, and having a number of short stories and poems published I'm happy to call myself an author.
My first love was the natural world, and it plays a large part in most of my stories. I have been fortunate to be able to explore the outdoors in much of the eastern United States, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand. I currently live near Christchurch, New Zealand with my husband, two children, four goats, three chickens and one evil cat.

Reviews

[Victoria Bastedo · Rating 5 out of 5]

What is magic, is explored by a librarian, with an FBI agent on her tail. But she just wants to curl up with her cat and a good book. We visit some amazing libraries, while escaping bullets. I enjoyed the interaction between the two main characters. Underlying are some deeper themes having to do with alternate morality. There's a lot to find in this book!

[Mary Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book a lot and am looking forward to a sequel. Never a dull moment in this story.