The Gangster (Magic & Steam #2)

Laughter, the drunk and carefree sort, greeted me at the landing of the fourth floor.

I crossed an empty hall and entered the half-sized bullpen situated outside the room of cells for our select criminals.

The desks were empty, save for the four agents—two casters and their bruiser counterparts—congregating around the furniture closest to the open door to the jail.

Agent Rachel Plunket was a trouser-wearing, axe-wielding woman, who defied society’s expectations of femininity by chopping her glossy black hair to chin-length and pairing the look with, what was considered by The Delineator , a too-bright rouge to her lips and cheeks.