Title: The Cane, The Puzzle, and Magic

Author: Vicky Burkholder

Genre:  Urban Fantasy Romance

Length: 293 pages

Word Count: 89802

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Release Date: October 9, 2023

Edition/Formats Available In: eBook .epub and .pdf, paperback

Digital Price: $3.99

Paperback Price: $18.99

ISBN: Digital: 978-1-5092-5104-9

Paperback: 978-1-5092-5103-2

Tagline: It’s never easy to fight a friend. It’s even harder to kill one.

Blurb/Synopsis: Facing down an ancient evil, special agent Elizabeth St. John is outnumbered, outgunned, and outmatched. Local cop Kaeden Pike is the perfect choice to help her but letting him—or anyone—into her life and heart is the most difficult challenge she’s ever faced. Kaeden has never found the one person who fit him, until now. But how can he convince Liz that they make the perfect pair, especially when the end of the world is coming? Someone has to gather the forces of good to win this fight, but when Liz accepts the role, she finds that being alone isn’t a choice she has to make. Almost losing Kaeden to the evil who already took the only other person she’s ever trusted convinces her to open her heart and let him in…where he belongs.

Book Links

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Author Information

As her alter-ego, Vicky has multiple homes all over the universe. She looks human – for the most part – but when she starts writing about characters being able to move things or flicking fire from their fingertips, or changing the course of rivers, people tend to get a little freaked out. She found the one guy out there in the universe who loves her for who she is and they’ve been together forever and raised four wonderful (now) adults. Her career includes work as a technical writer/editor, a stringer for the local newspaper, and an editor and copy editor for various publishers. At various times in her life, she has been a teacher, a secretary, a short-order cook, a computer specialist, a DJ, and a librarian. When not editing or writing, she can be found in the kitchen creating gluten free goodies for her family.

Author Links

Website:  http://www.vicky-burkholder.com

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Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1264928.Vicky_Burkholder

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Excerpt

The knowledge of what might happen pounded into her brain. The psychic vibes coming from the sheet were stronger than before. Bannig was coming. And soon. She laid her head back down.

“I really do not need this. You hear me? I don’t want to do this anymore. Can’t you find someone else? I’m sure you have other agents who can take care of him.”

The paper hung there, like a stern teacher frowning at a recalcitrant student. She’d seen the look often enough to recognize the expression even from a sheet of paper. Silent and noncompromising. The letter floated down to hang in front of her again, and she resisted the urge to stick her tongue out. Barely.

“Fine. All right. I’ll take care of him. Where do I need to go?” She looked inside the envelope for

directions. Empty. There were always directions, but not this time. No notes, no map, nothing.

“You planning to tell me where I need to go?”

The paper didn’t move.

“All right. Fine. Be that way.” She pricked her thumb with her blade and smeared the drop of blood over the pad of her thumb then pressed the bloodied digit against the bottom of the paper. The crimson print disappeared, as always, and the paper dropped into her lap. Then she saw a new line of writing at the bottom of the page. A line that hadn’t been there before and consisted of only two words, but those two words turned her blood to ice.

Go home.