Out of Body

Grayson Knox expects a routine call. Instead he finds a woman acting exactly like a dog.

Someone pulled off an inverted familiar binding, swapping the minds of a human and an animal. Odette Marsh, a powerful practitioner, is stuck inside a stubborn bulldog and furious about it. The bulldog, meanwhile, is walking around in Odette's body.

Knox has to find her before the magical courts decide what to do about the spell. Easier said than done. Odette can't talk. She can't write. She can't cast. And to everyone else she looks like an ordinary dog.

But she's very much alive in there, and she's determined to be heard. With refrigerator magnets, stubborn persistence, some magical detective work, and help from Knox's ghostly Watcher, Elvis, Odette finally gets her message across.

That only solves half the problem. The magical court has its own ideas about punishment. And nobody can answer the strangest question of all: what happens to the real dog's mind trapped in Odette's human body?

Caught between supernatural law, an impossible spell, and a witch who refuses to spend the rest of her life as somebody's pet, Knox has to untangle the binding before the court does something worse.

Magic has rules. Sometimes the punishment is worse than the crime.

A Grayson Knox, Marshal of Magic urban fantasy with witches, familiars, ghosts, and modern magic with a Southern twist.