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Oliver Jones used to live an ordinary life, until one night a stray cat began speaking to him and things began to go very wrong. Now he is on the run, hunted by an inhuman assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him. His only hope for survival rests…
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Oliver, a financial analyst befriends a stray cat who begins talking to him one night. And then things start to get really strange.
This is an ‘all the myths are true’ adventure fantasy set in modern-day San Francisco, where absurd things just keep happening while Oliver runs for his life from an inhuman assassin, and finds himself allied with a werewolf with excellent baking skills and a grumpy gunslinger who take orders from an (apparently) immortal child.
I love this story not only for the talking cat (though admittedly it’s what made me start reading), but for the way Oliver…
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