
Riding on the case are a woman's reputation, a man's death, and the future of PUPI. Human/nonhuman relations are already unstable and could explode if PUPI can't figure out what really happened. The ki-rin killed one assailant and partially disemboweled the other, and everything looks simple until the survivor claims she was used as bait.


Bonita Torres loves working with Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations (PUPI), but the team's latest case, the attempted rape of a magical ki-rin's human companion, has her on edge. Gilman follows 2010's Hard Magic with another winning mix of snappy writing and a fun and intelligent story about crime-solving magic users.
