a short CLOAK OF MASKS excerpt

Today, I am thankful that waiting for a contractor to call back is entirely compatible with writing a book. 🙂

Let’s have a short excerpt from CLOAK OF MASKS!

In today’s excerpt, Nadia is dismayed that she’s starting to have a different level of socioeconomic problems. 🙂

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“More interesting than I expected,” said Neil. “The Marshal received an unusual package in the mail.”

I still hadn’t consented to have a security team following me around, but I had taken some extra precautions. The post office routed all my mail and packages to Cloak Corporation’s headquarters now, where they it scanned and checked for explosives and other nasty tricks. My address wasn’t publicly known, but sometimes cranks managed to find it out and send me mail. Most of it was harmless. In fact, all of it to date had been harmless. The most disturbing one was a man who had written to me claiming that lizard people were secretly controlling the Elven nobles and that he could hear their telepathic broadcasts over cell phone towers. Now, while in knew for a fact that lizard people did actually exist, I had never seen one and as far as I knew they had never come to Earth. Neil had backtracked the address, which turned out to be an elderly man who had stopped taking his medications and suffered what the doctors euphemistically called an “episode.” His daughters and his doctor had been massively relieved once he was back on his pills.

That had ended well.

But someone who wanted me dead might try something creative.

-JM