Silent Ones (ebook) by Mel Polk

Knox Blue's life has lapsed into stagnation. The cases he's been assigned lately as a private investigator have been dull and predictable. Arguably, the only interesting thing he has going for him is that his magic is on the fritz and beginning to take a toll on his physical health--not really the sort of excitement he'd prefer.

When he's handed a case for a rival coven, Knox can't help but be suspicious. But a job's a job and anything is better than another skunk ape sighting.

Enter Sawyer, a shifter and thief with a heart of gold who will do anything to provide for his family. Unfortunately for him, that includes accepting an ill-advised job from a cagey witch. There was no way he could have anticipated just how sideways the job could go. Or that it might lead him to the man destined to be the other half of his soul.

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content/trigger warnings: 

• explicit sex
• violence (guns, knives, magic—none of it especially graphic)
• allusions to homelessness, abuse, extreme poverty
• alcohol use
• capture/kidnapping
• non-explicit mentions of torture/non-consensual experimentation
• off-page/backstory death of a parent
• non-fatal, accidental, off-page (though explained) injury of a child
• mentions of blood drinking (because vampires)
• depictions of gore/wounds/injury

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