Wizard's Shield: An Inquisitor Damulis Novel, #3

The Crown City pulses with tension. Assassins stalk the Royal Family. Their growing threat is a shadow from an old back alley, reaching out of a past when crime, not the king, reigned over the streets.

My new client, a seemingly ordinary merchant, might be small time compared to that, but danger looms large. To say a couple of goons are shaking him down is like saying Infernus is a little hot. He tells me that one of them is a damned apeman. Right. I’ve been hiring out my services as an inquisitor and martial artist for a while now. I’ve had my fair share of clients lie to me for their own twisted schemes.

But it’s my client’s apprentice who puzzles me. Her sweet face hit me like a roundhouse kid, and her bitter attitude threatens to finish the job. She’s a newly minted wizarding-type, the kind I try to stay away from. She’s bristling with magical power, but something about her says she needs my help more than the merchant, even if she can’t admit it to herself.

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