Crooked Magic

Wizards are back and selling their services to the highest bidder. Amethyst Rey has just been outed as a wizard, and now she’s on the auction block, too-whether she wants to be or not.Amethyst just wants to live quietly as a stained glass artist. But when she and Talys, her familiar, confront another wizard who’s meddling in local New Mexico politics, she lands herself square in the sights of the shadowy figure called Ragman, a headhunter who supplies wizards to corporate clients.When the game of cat and mouse with Ragman and his hired thugs turns deadly, Amethyst is forced to partner with Jas Harker, the wizard who almost ensnared her last year. But charming, devious Jas always has his own agenda. And this time, he’s maneuvering to pick up where he and Amethyst left off.

Kathlena Contreras has been writing since the age of eight, when while hanging out at her dad’s office one summer, she typed out a story about a saber-toothed tiger that encounters a time machine. The story was three paragraphs long. Many years and many paragraphs later and here she is, still writing about weird things. In between writing, Kathlena has been the owner of a successful small business, an assistant medical librarian, a database manager and a pusher of paper in countless offices. She’s also been a copy editor for three nationally distributed rodeo magazines and the editor of a local 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, USA, the Land of Enchantment, a place where the view goes on forever. Kathlena L. Contreras also writes as K. Lynn Bay.