Blood Engines

Meet Marla Mason& #8211; smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast.& #8230; < br> < br> Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla& #8217; s life& #8211; and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla& #8217; s only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isn& #8217; t going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expected& #8230; and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Francisco& #8217; s top sorcerers are having troubles of their own& #8211; a mysterious assailant has the city& #8217; s magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one.< br> < br> With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Francisco& #8217; s alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesn& #8217; t figure out who is killing the city& #8217; s finest in time, she& #8217; ll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself.& #8230; < br> < br> < br> < i> From the Paperback edition.< /i>

Hoping to save her city from a powerful rival out to destroy her, sorcerer Marla Mason, guardian of the city of Felport, heads for San Francisco in search of the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in the city, only to discover that some of San Francisco's most powerful sorcerers have fallen prey to a mysterious assailant out to eliminate the city's magical community. Original.

Meet Marla Mason–smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast.…

Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla’s life–and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla’s only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isn’t going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expected…and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Francisco’s top sorcerers are having troubles of their own–a mysterious assailant has the city’s magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one.

With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Francisco’s alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesn’t figure out who is killing the city’s finest in time, she’ll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself.…

T.A. Pratt lives in Oakland, California with partner H.L. Shaw, and works as a senior editor for a trade publishing magazine.