Familiar Magic

Something is devouring wizards. And Amethyst Rey has just discovered she’s next on the menu. Amethyst is being stalked. Odd gifts appear on her doorstep. A black Mustang lurks in front of her house. But when the car-minus a driver-snatches her off her Albuquerque street, Amethyst is plunged into a hidden world of magic where no one can be trusted and nobody is quite what they seem. As she struggles to hold on to her normal life, an ancient spirit pursues her, warning of magic grown toxic and dangerously unstable by the disappearance of wizards. A homeless man mumbles about a predator that drains wizards of power, leaving behind tormented shadows. Amethyst had better learn to use her untested wizardry before the predator catches up to her-if the magic doesn’t explode and destroy the world first.Also includes Do You Believe in Magic, a Land of Enchantment short story.

In other incarnations, Kathlena Contreras has been a small business owner, a copy editor for three nationally distributed magazines, an assistant medical librarian, a database manager, and editor of a small literary magazine. She currently lives with her husband, five dogs and assorted livestock on the edge of the woods above the valley east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a place where the view goes on forever. Kathlena L. Contreras also writes as K. Lynn Bay. Visit flyingtigerpress.com or Kathlena L. Contreras on Facebook.