Stained Glass — James Osiris Baldwin

My name is Alexi Sokolsky, and I am broken.

Stripped of my magical power and forced to escape the Russian Mafia I loyally served for so many years, everything I am has distilled to one pure drive: survival.

But the Universe has other plans for me beyond scrapping in the streets. Someone has murdered two shapeshifter elders and stolen twenty children from a group home in Yonkers, and the shapeshifters of New York are baying for blood. With their leadership fracturing under the pressure, they need a Spook, a mage able to do the dirty work the police can't stomach.Problem is, revenge is rarely as easy as walking up and putting a bullet between someone's eyes. All I have to go on is a trail of bodies full of broken glass and rumors about the fate of the missing children - rumors so dark that they shock even me.

To recover the kids and regain my life, I need to get my magic back. The question is whether or not I can do it in time to save any of us.