Hellion's Journey

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>When home is anything but a haven ...</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>                  Detective Inspector Palmer yearns for a caseload of ordinary crimes-no monsters no mages and definitely no magic. Dark sorcery has left his city in bloody chaos and Palmer is exhausted. But then Layla one of the beauties from the notorious Hellion House darkens his interrogation room door. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lovely Layla is more welcome in Palmer's daydreams where her obsession for silver bullets and sharp knives can be safely ignored. But now she brings news about his most-wanted villain-the mechanic responsible for sabotaging the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Leopard</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and sending most of the airship's crew to a fiery death. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The evidence points to Palmer's home town-a rough-and-ready hellhole he'd gratefully left behind. Now with Layla at his side he returns to his birthplace and to the scene of a half-forgotten murder. All at once his freedom his mission and Layla's safety depend on solving the cold case. That's no mean feat in a town full of crooks drifters and broken-down magicians but DI Palmer always catches his culprit.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until now. Uncovering one deadly secret is sure to reveal others-including his own. </span></p><p></p>