Kirjahaku

My name is Kit Morris, and welcome to my warped life.Picture the scene: Me, an average guy with psychic powers-not that my abilities are in any way average-just trying to scrape by in a harsh world. So maybe I've conned a few people, but did I really deserve to be thrown in MPD jail alongside magic-wielding serial killers?According to Agent Lienna Shen, one-hundred-percent yes.But her hardass attitude and "Arcana prodigy" status aren't enough to bring down my former best friend, who slipped through the MPD's fingers and is days away from unleashing untold horrors upon the city. Or he's going to steal something. I don't really know.Whatever he's up to, that's why I'm sitting in an interrogation room with Lienna. And that's why I just offered myself as her temporary new partner for the purposes of thwarting my ex-accomplice.And that's how I'm going to escape. I might even help with the case before I cut and run.

Agent Kit Morris. Has a nice ring, doesn't it?It's a big step up from "wanted criminal" or "that weird con-artist guy with weirder psychic powers"-both of which recently applied to me. But my promotion to MagiPol agent comes with a few drawbacks.First, supremely talented and effortlessly gorgeous Agent Lienna Shen won't agree to a dinner date with me. Second, my new assignment has pitted me against a guild with very bad taste in pets. Third, those pets are demons, and those demons want to kill me.My psychic magic is great for conning people. It doesn't do jack shit against hellish orcs. If I screw this up, my dinner date will be with a demon-and I'll be the dinner. Even better, I kind of suspect this supposedly straightforward assignment is actually the tip of an unholy iceberg of power-hungry malefactors bent on destroying all law and order in the city.I should probably mention that last part to my boss.

As a former con-artist, I love a convoluted, mind-bending scheme as much as the next guy. But as a recently promoted MagiPol agent, I love it significantly less than that guy.Especially when the life of a kidnapped teen hangs in the balance.Between confusing orders and conflicting evidence, this whole investigation has me and my partner, Lienna, spinning in circles. Why is our boss keeping this case off the books? Why is our top suspect, the most notorious rogue in Vancouver, mired in contradictions? And why am I the only one who cares more about the victim than their own ulterior motives?Everyone wants me to shut up and follow orders, but that's not my style. I'll do whatever it takes to save this kid-even if that means returning to my roguish roots.

What's a hardworking MagiPol agent need to do to get a little R&R?Between Agent S ze, the treacherous Internal Affairs tyrant who's taken over my precinct, and the super illegal sorcery my partner Lienna was hiding in said precinct-which is now missing-my usual routine of busting magical criminals has fallen apart in favor of hectic damage control.But that went out the window too when a respected Guild Master was found dead. Agent S ze is trying to cover it up, which is all the reason I need to make solving the murder my top priority.Except now Agent S ze is trying to arrest and/or kill me. Not entirely unexpected, but both dangerous and highly irritating.With the clock ticking on the next mysterious Guild Master murder, Lienna and I have to find a way to prove Agent S ze is behind it all. We need rock-solid evidence to bring him down, which is kind of tricky when crooked agents, shady allies, and cutthroat assassins keep complicating matters.And if we don't get to the bottom of it fast, my next day off will be in the morgue as another corpse to be swept under the corruption rug.

The weirdness level of my life has reached an all-time high. Which is saying something, considering I started out as a psychic conman and somehow ended up as a MagiPol agent. And not just any agent. Lately, I've been Captain Blythe's right-hand man and most trusted confidant.Yeah, I know. Super weird.It's also kind of awkward because, unbeknownst to her, I've also teamed up with her most loathed nemesis, Darius King, guild master of the Crow and Hammer and the number one guy on the Consilium's "To Be Eliminated" list.Oh, and the Consilium? It's just a secret organization embedded deep in the upper echelons of the MPD that's using its nefarious influence to take over the world. Or destroy it. We're still figuring that part out."We" being me and Blythe. And me and Darius. But not Blythe and Darius. Like I said, it's awkward.Unfortunately, the Consilium knows we're on to them. Their plans are already in motion, and if we don't find a way to stop them, the mythic world will change for the worse-and there'll be no going back.