Draw One in the Dark by Sarah A. Hoyt (Baen, paperback, $7.99) is a welcome addition to the field of urban fantasy. Hoyt’s first novel introduces us to Kyrie Smith and Tom Ormson, nightshift co-workers at a Colorado diner who are both shapeshifters.
Kyrie was convinced that her jaguar shape was simply a hallucination or symptom of schizophrenia, but when she goes out the back door of the diner and encounters a blood-spattered dragon who shifts back into a dazed and confused Tom, she can no longer deny the truth.
In order to keep Tom alive long enough to learn more about shifters, Kylie must help him deal with a Chinese triad of shapeshifting dragons desperate to recover the relic he has stolen.
Fans of Wen Spencer’s Tinker and Emma Bull’s Finder should enjoy this urban coming-of-age tale.
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