"Using magic meant it used you back. Forget the fairy-tale hocus-pocus- wave a wand and bling- sparkles and pixie dust crap. Magic- like booze, sex and drugs, gave as good as it got." Everything has a cost. And every act of magic exacts a price from its user -- maybe a two-day migraine or losing the memory of your first kiss. But some people want to use magic without paying. Offloading the cost onto innocents. It falls to a Hound to identify the spell's caster -- and Allison Beckstrom is the best Hound there is. Daughter of a prominent Portland businessman, Allie would rather moonlight as a Hound than accept the family fortune -- and the strings that come with it. But when she discovers a little boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father's signature all over it. Allie is thrown back into the high-stakes world of corporate espionage and black magic. If Allie wants the truth- she has to call upon forces that will challenge and change her...and make her capable of things that powerful people will do anything to control.
Author Biography
Devon Monk has sold over 50 short stories to magazines and anthologies which have been published internationally. This is her first novel of a great new series. She has been a columnist for an outdoors magazine, coordinated writer retreats and worked for a child psychologist and criminal lawyer. She is married with two sons and a dog named Mojo. They live in Oregon, where she knits, remodels her house-that-was-a-barn and hosts family celebrations when she is not writing.
