Elias Sandoval makes his living playing songs for tourists at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. He'll play whatever tunes make his listeners happy. He never expected to get a request for a classical song seemingly out of thin air.
Playing that one simple song sends Elias headlong into a world that shouldn't exist. A world where stray cats can pass for any creature they wish. A lion. A tiger. Even a beautiful woman who thanks him for playing her song.
A beautiful, enigmatic woman who decides to claim Elias as her next human companion.
A jealous creature who will do anything to keep him to herself.
Even kill.
Annie Reed has been called "one of the best writers of her generation" and for good reason. She writes in multiple genres, including urban and contemporary fantasy, mystery, suspense, science fiction, romance, and thrillers, along with the occasional story that doesn't fall into any one specific category. She's a founding member and frequent contributor to the innovative UNCOLLECTED ANTHOLOGY, now starting its eleventh year of publishing themed urban and contemporary anthologies. Her short fiction appears regularly in PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE, THRILL RIDE MAGAZINE, and MYSTERY, CRIME & MAYHEM. She's even written official Star Trek fiction and admits that she's an unabashed MCU fangirl.Annie has won awards in categories as diverse as her writing. She's been honored with appearances in five year's best mystery and crime volumes, including an amazing three years in a row in the BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR (2022, 2023, and 2024) edited by Otto Penzler. She received a Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future and won a Literary Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. She's a multiple Derringer finalist, and one of her holiday romance stories (featuring cats, of course) was chosen to appear in study materials in Japan for students preparing for college entrance exams.This prolific, versatile writer's longer works include the mystery novels Pretty Little Horses, Paper Bullets, and A Death in Cumberland, the crime novel Road of No Return (which also features a cat), the suspense novel Shadow Life written under the name Kris Sparks, and the Gray Lady space opera novels co-written with bestselling author Robert Jeschonek. Annie also writes the sweet romance Liberty Springs novels under the name Liz McKnight.Annie currently writes and edits full time, when she's not otherwise cuddling cats. She can be found on the web at anniereed.wordpress.com.
