River City Witch - C Lowry

Some magic hides.

Some magic hunts.

And some magic builds for sixteen years... waiting to be found.

Memphis Marshal of Magic Grayson Knox is used to handling problems that surface fast-rogue practitioners, illegal spells, supernatural crimes that break clean once you apply pressure.

This isn't one of those cases.

When a long-inactive European practitioner arrives in Memphis, she doesn't trigger alarms.

She doesn't make mistakes.

She doesn't even ask for help.

Instead, she brings evidence.

Sixteen years' worth.

Lena Voss is a master of ward architecture-a precision practitioner who walked away from the magical system and spent nearly two decades operating off the grid. Now she's back with something no one else has:

Proof of a hidden network.

A network that has been quietly embedding magical structures inside buildings across multiple cities... including Memphis.

As Knox begins to review her work, a pattern emerges:

But they're not the only ones who know about it.

A shadow organization has been watching Lena for years.

They know what she's carrying.

And they're already moving to contain it.

With multiple practitioners converging on a single target zone, Knox is forced into a deeper level of the magical system-one involving cross-border investigations, hidden networks, and a case that has been building long before he ever saw it.

Because this isn't just a violation of magical law.

It's a system.

And systems don't break quietly.