First in a new urban fantasy series-with a bite as magical as its bark. Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical...well, let's call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil that even Louie can't sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he'll have to fall back on the one skill he's mastered in music and magic-improvisation. "Jazz, scotch, and dark magic, it's all waiting around every unfamiliar corner and at the end of every shadowed alley in a world that has both bark and bite. The supernatural lives, breathes, and slithers in a San Francisco where the dog days don't just get you down; they eat you alive." -- Rob Thurman, author of "Nightlife" and "Moonshine" John Levitt is the author of the Dog Days novels, an urban fantasy series inspired by Levitt's seven years as an officer in the Salt Lake City Police Department. He now splits his time between Alta, Utah, and San Fransisco, California.