Buggeration! Without knowing it she'd been recruited into unearthing Carter's bloody network, just as The Baron wanted!When Lucien Dufray's cat and flock of birds turn up at Tricky's cabin, she knows something's wrong. But when her crystal ball shows her one thing and Adric tells her another, Tricky becomes suspicious - which might be her natural state, but there was nothing natural about Dufray's disappearance. Adric wants her to find him, but has Dufray been kidnapped or has he turned traitor?Between her mother's jade calling to her in the forest of Ferriston, The Rabble, an untrustworthy fae collective directing her to the Unsailable Sea, and her spy glass showing her Dimitry Stanislav, one of her mother's murderers, Tricky is confused.The only witnesses to Dufray's exodus were his menagerie, so Tricky recruits an old friend, Nathan Rothschild, who can communicate with cats, and Annie's ex-girlfriend, Safa Odeh, who can communicate with birds, and together they try to piece together what happened that night.What they uncover is a plot deeper than the network's underground bunkers. Will Tricky be able to find Dufray or will she risk capture? Either way she needs to keep her wits about her and remember she's the tricky one.Tricky's Tales are a series of dark paranormal fantasy novels set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimates the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated. Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with - most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together - the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. Tricky's Tales is a dark paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimated the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.Tricky is a new-age witch, of sorts, who is adept at working with energy and time as well as communicating with trees. Her tale starts when she is evicted from her home and finds her obsidian has been stolen. To get it back she comes up against the head of the district, Carter, and his corrupt network, and ends up drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone

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