As it turns out, life doesn't get any easier after you're dead.

Patch is a calico tomcat on his way to hook up with a seductive Siamese when a starving vampire turns him into breakfast—and a vampire kitty-cat. He can’t go back to living (as it were) with his associate Amy because suddenly she smells delicious, and sinking his fangs into her is just wrong. He’s plunged into the vampire underground of Bloomsburg, Illinois.

But his attacker is a victim too, and she becomes his new associate as they struggle together to find a life. She runs for city council to fight for vampire rights, with Patch as her running mate.

In the process, a mob tries to skewer Patch with a stake, he’s tried for murder, just about shotgunned into undead pieces, he comes inches from having his tail cut off and seconds from being fried by the sun, and he’s kidnapped twice.

Oh, yeah, and turned into a (shudder) politician.

On the other paw, he does hook up with that sweet Siamese, and it looks like he’s on the way to winning that election . . .

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Not too many years from now . . .

The very nature of criminal justice and self defense is changing in the Pacific Northwest—criminals compelled to tell the truth in court, guns converted to nonlethal weapons.

But there’s fierce opposition, and the president, in danger of losing reelection, aims to win votes by taking down the man behind it all, Noah Stone. His weapon is Jake Black, an ex Secret Service agent.

Now a cold-blooded gun for hire, Jake lives an emotionless existence after his wife and little girl were killed. A fog of numbness in his mind smothers everything—especially the grief he cannot bear. Scoring a million dollars for taking care of what he sees as a con man is no problem.

But the closer he gets to his target, the more he’s drawn to Stone. When a treacherous attack threatens to destroy Stone's work, Jake is the one man who can save it. He faces the question of his life—who is the enemy, Noah Stone or Jake Black?

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Annie is a gifted healer in a hidden society. . .

. . . whose members manipulate the life energy created by all living things to do magical feats: to heal flesh, to slow aging . . . and to kill without a weapon.

In Chicago, a Homeland Security agent catches her using her “magic” and decides Annie is a terrorist. On the run, Annie is helped by Gabe, an unknowing “half-breed” of her people. He and Mike, his 5-year-old son, share her abilities—but, isolated from the clans, they don't understand their strange talents and are tormented by them. Little Mike seems lost in autism.

Annie’s heart goes out to them, but, before she can help, she and Gabe are captured by Homeland Security and tortured for a secret that Annie can't reveal and Gabe doesn't know.

Gabe is freed by a clansman bent on a vendetta for the killing of his son by an “ordinary” human. He tricks Gabe into using his abilities to help create an unstoppable plague of mad cow disease that will destroy mankind. 

Annie breaks free and goes into hiding to protect the clans, but then only she and Gabe can stop the release of the plague from high atop the Seattle Space Needle—if they’re not stopped when the Homeland Security agent, who holds Mike hostage, launches an attack.

With high-stakes conflict and human drama, Finding Magic explores loss, prejudice, community, and the human magic within each of us.

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