Most days, Marshal of Magic Grayson Knox handles paperwork, minor hexes, and the occasional teenage spell gone wrong. Then two cases land on his desk at once.
A grief counselor on Cooper Avenue has been carrying a displaced magical ability for almost ten years without knowing it. That should be impossible. At the same time, a Gulf Coast hexworker named Solis rolls into Memphis under contract, stalking the city with the patience of a professional hunter.
Either one looks manageable. Together, they point to something much worse.
Knox starts digging and finds a shadow network that brokers commercial magic, contracted curses, and supernatural enforcement jobs for powerful organizations that treat practitioners like disposable tools. Now a foresight seer is on the run, a hidden talent is about to blow wide open, and a professional hex-killer is closing in.
To stop a magical hit before it happens, Knox has to work through probability magic, secret supernatural law, and a conspiracy that's been quietly steering events along the Gulf Coast for years.
But when the future itself turns into a battlefield, even a Marshal of Magic may not see what's coming next.
Magic is real. The law is older than the city. And someone is breaking both.
An urban fantasy mystery of magical investigations and supernatural crime under the streets of Memphis.
C Lowry is the author of The Marshal of Magic series.