Frayed Circuits
J S Howard
Type: Beta project
Genre: Fantasy
Word count: 94,000
Warnings: Swearing
Magic runs through San Francisco like current through old wiring. Jake Caro used to work for the agency that keeps it hidden. When a body turns up beneath the bridge crackling with impossible energy, his investigation pulls him into a conspiracy that threatens the entire Bay Area. Noir-inflected urban fantasy for readers of Aaronovitch, Jacka, and Butcher.
Magic runs through San Francisco like current through old wiring – invisible, unpredictable, and most people never know it’s there. Jake Caro isn’t most people. He used to work for the agency that keeps it all quiet. These days he lives on a houseboat in Sausalito and consults for the Bay Area’s discreet magical community. A quieter life, though not a disconnected one.
That changes when a body turns up on the shoreline beneath the bridge, crackling with magical energy that shouldn’t be possible. Jake’s investigation pulls him into a conspiracy deeper than a single death, a corporate plan threatening the entire Bay Area.
Stopping it will take every ally he can find, and abilities he’s spent years making sure no one ever sees.
J S Howard lives in Sausalito, the fog-edged waterfront community at the heart of Frayed Circuits. A former journalist and staff book reviewer, he brings a reporter’s precision and a reader’s critical insight to his fiction.
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