[King & Crown 01] • Lock & Key

**In a world forever changed by The Unveiling, where so-called "supernaturals" revealed their existence to humanity...**

Katherine "Kat" King is on the run.

Two years ago, she woke up in a cell, held captive by a mysterious organization known as Advent 9. Subjected to harsh experiments involving magic, mayhem, and genetic engineering, Kat struggled to hold onto her sanity.

But now, she's escaped Advent 9's grasp—and she intends to keep it that way. Using the only three things that Advent 9 couldn't take from her: an alias, amnesia, and an attitude that could make a grown man cry.

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Liam Crown had it all once up a time.

A washed-up star detective with a penchant for "magic tricks," Liam's life fell to pieces when an accident cost him his family—and his sobriety.

Now he scrapes by with a PI license and his late father's used bookshop and spends most of his free time with a bottle in his hand.

But when a chance encounter with a strange woman makes him the target of a violent underground organization, Liam finds himself being dragged—quite literally—out of his stagnant life and back into the danger zone he thought he'd left forever.

And as the stakes begin to mount, Liam realizes that his old self is slowly coming back to life in the face of battle.

Now all he has to do is survive the war.