Jinx in the Hinterlands (Academy of Necessary Magic Book 6) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sort3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

The team stocked up on supplies—mainly food from David’s kitchen—then Wally reached out to another contact and got them an SUV to drive out to northern Pennsylvania.

Amanda couldn’t help but feel like this was a poor attempt to copy a Johnny Walker job.

And none of them know who he is.

By early afternoon, they’d reached the visitor center for Elk State Forest, parked the SUV haphazardly in the empty parking lot, and hopped over the gate that declared the park closed for the off-season. The signs and closed gates and locked-up visitor center didn’t matter to the mercenary monster-hunter team heading out after their bounty.

Why would it? These guys don’t care about anything but getting the job done. And they still don’t take me seriously.

Fortunately for Amanda, David had also kept a cache of random clothing at his safehouse, and they’d managed to outfit her with a much heavier winter jacket and boots. The boots were a little on the big side, but after stuffing them with three pairs of socks, they worked well enough.

Mac led their party through the crust of fresh snow coating the entire park as far as they could see. The fancy tracker in his hand had to have come from the Canissphere. Amanda hadn’t seen anything nearly as sophisticated or slim at David’s safehouse, and the intel for this monster was coming from Dr. Caniss’ team anyway.

The thin, bright, nearly translucent device looked seriously out of place in the lead mercenary’s hand.

“Okay, so how about now?” Amanda asked as she scrambled over a fallen log that the other shifters merely had to hop over to keep going.

“Did you guys hear something?” Tattoo cocked his head. “Didn’t think there’d be flies buzzing around my ears in the middle of winter.”

“I’m serious,” Amanda added. “Dr. Caniss ordered me to come out here like the rest of you. The least you can do is hand over a weapon. You have like…thirty.”

“Not happening, kid,” Tyler muttered as she ducked beneath overhanging pine branches laden with what looked like pounds of snow. “You wanted a weapon; you should’ve brought one with you.”

“I didn’t bring anything in the first—forget it. Mac.” The shifter girl jogged to catch up with the hulking, bearded mercenary, her boots crunching as heavily in the snow as his. “Just give me something. I’m on the team. Don’t you think I should be armed, at least?”

“No, I think you should be quiet.” He gave her a warning glance from the corner of his eye. “It’s so quiet in this place that the damn monster’ll hear you from miles away.”

“Come on. I’ve spent the last two years hunting in the Everglades, okay? With rifles and harpoon guns. I know what I’m doing.”

“Sure, but you’re still a kid. That was the deal. No weapons to the kid. We’re following orders.”

“That came right from Dr. Caniss?”

Mac turned his head to scan the surrounding forest and grumbled, “What do you think?”

I think these are the complete wrong monster-hunters for the job, is what I think.

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