β Scribed by Christine Pope
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When you pull up stakes, make sure you don't get stabbed in the back.
Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles' anxiety-ridden housewives, lawyers, and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond, leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers' Guild, who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishly devoted groupies.
Selena's not interested in the slimy, celebrity-schmoozing sorcerer, but nobody turns Lucien down without consequences. When he threatens to fit her with magical cement shoes and drop her off the Santa Monica Pier, Selena's Tarot cards point her to Globe, Arizona, for a new home, a new shop, and a cursed pet cat.
Just as she's settling in and meeting the locals -- including Calvin Standingbear, hunky chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police -- Lucien tracks her down...and promptly disappears. When his body turns up...
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