How to Catch a Magical by Samuel Thews
If you want to catch a Magical, you have to go about it the right way.
You have to have the right tools, the right training, a certain disregard for danger and a flair for the dramatic. Oh, and it helps if you inherit your father's wicked bounty hunter skills, which give you superhuman reflexes and senses.
It's really hard without the last one.
Andromeda Nyx has all the skills to be a successful bounty hunter. But after five years of training and catching nothing but Flinks-the lowest-level Magicals, the kind that think it's funny to steal just one sock from a pair and hide it somewhere in the garden-she's itching for bigger game. When her mentor says going out on her own to catch a Sprite is too risky, she decides to freelance. When the Sprite she catches turns out to be a messenger, Nyx is chosen as an ambassador for the bounty hunters and must travel to the decrepit world of the Magicals, Himnara.
While there, she is informed of a plot by Arcanus Emerson Kain-the leader of a rogue sect of Magicals-to invade Earth for a seemingly bizarre purpose: he wants to steal people. Along with her mentor Ridge, Nyx must find a way to stop Kain before his power becomes too great.
Praise:
"Samuel Thews writes a rousing tale of magic, bounty hunters and war. I suspect that I like my teenage heroines to always be confident and either compassionate and positive, or cynical, violent and jaded."
"Andromeda is a complex character, as are her Father and some of the others in the story. My favorites, outside of Andromeda, was Whitchurch. He was a charming, crazy and wild old bounty hunter that Andromeda meets in an enemy prison. Between his wit, his skills, his experience, his brilliance and his caring, he is just a wonderful person. The nude fishing and other zany things make him a bit crazy."
Excerpt:
"What happened?" I asked, but before Whitchurch could answer, I caught sight of the mask lying on the ground not a foot from my outstretched hand.
"Get that away from me!" I shrieked and struggled from Whitchurch's grasp and crawled across the floor away from the mask.
I couldn't remember anything about what had happened, but it must have been horrible as I couldn't stand to look at the mask. Whitchurch took me by the shoulders and led me up the staircase until the glow of the cavern disappeared.
"Did I get it?"
"Yes," he said, and dangled a plain silver amulet from a chain in his hand. "But I thought I'd lost you." We stopped on the stairs and his bright-blue eyes pored over my face. "Do you remember anything?"
I shook my head, which wasn't a smart thing to do as the resulting throb made me lose balance, but Whitchurch kept me on my feet.
I raised a trembling hand to my right cheek and felt four scratches that burned when I touched them. What had happened when I put the mask on?
"You did that to yourself," Whitchurch whispered.
I decided then that I didn't want to know.
Author Samuel Thews
Samuel Thews has been writing stories since he was old enough to hold a pencil. As a child, he reveled in the stories of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Brian Jacques and other fantasy authors. A life-long reader, he is a fan of J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and mystery author M.C. Beaton. He has also read Les Miserables not once, but twice. Unabridged, of course.
Although his educational background is in science and law, it is still the magical and fantastical that excites him. He enjoys writing stories for his daughters, who will hear one bedtime tale and ask that it be turned into a book. Writing with a whimsical style, he seeks to evoke the light, refreshing reading experience found in fairy tales and cozy mysteries.
A native of North Carolina, he currently lives in a rural part of Orange County with his wife, three children and their ever growing menagerie.
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