Mask Gaze

By Jonathan Moeller

My name's Nadia, and I look after my family.

So when a sketchy private investigator starts making trouble for my brother's company, I'm going to push back hard.

Except the private investigator is like me.

He's a wizard.

Which means this is going to get ugly...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan Moeller
• Release date: Mar 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463551363

Jonathan Moeller

Standing over six feet tall, Jonathan Moeller has the piercing blue eyes of a Conan of Cimmeria, the bronze-colored hair of a Visigothic warrior-king, and the stern visage of a captain of men, none of which are useful in his career as a computer repairman, alas.He has written the "Demonsouled" trilogy of sword-and-sorcery novels, and continues to write the "Ghosts" sequence about assassin and spy Caina Amalas, the "$0.99 Beginner's Guide" series of computer books, and numerous other works.Visit his website at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.comVisit his technology blog at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed

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MASK GAZE

Jonathan Moeller

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Description

My name's Nadia, and I look after my family.

So when a sketchy private investigator starts making trouble for my brother's company, I'm going to push back hard.

Except the private investigator is like me.

He's a wizard.

Which means this is going to get ugly...

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Mask Gaze

Copyright 2020 by Jonathan Moeller.

Smashwords Edition.

Ebook edition published April 2020.

All Rights Reserved.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written permission of the author or publisher, except where permitted by law.

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Chapter 1: Just Business

My name’s Nadia MacCormac, and before I tell this story, there are three things you need to know about me.

I got involved in the fruit business, I bullied the local head of organized crime into staying out of my brother’s company, and I don’t like to kill people.

Okay. I realize that doesn’t help. Let me explain.

The day I got married, the High Queen of the Elves made a brief appearance to give me a gift. Traditionally, an Elven noble is supposed to bestow a gift to his or her bondsmen and women on the day of their marriage. Since Tarlia had recruited me as her shadow agent, I was technically her bondswoman, and despite the chaos of the last year, she believed in maintaining some traditions. When the High Queen arrived to give me the gift before the ceremony, my brother Russell ran into her first. I’m still not sure how it happened, but somehow Russell convinced Tarlia to give him exclusive license to import fruit from the Elven homeworld of