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The case: a grandmother who vanished from a locked room.The best lead: a psychic who's as mysterious as she is cute.Detective Jack Donovan is the one called upon when weird cases hit Auckland. A fierce loner with a reputation for solving the unsolvable, she is the perfect choice for the latest odd mystery: the locked-room disappearance of a beloved grandmother, who has vanished without trace and, seemingly, without suspects or a motive. This time around, though, Jack has also been assigned a partner. The fresh young detective Piper, who has transferred in with a difficult history, is determined to prove themself. Smart, perky, and inexperienced. They are exactly the kind of partner Jack manages to scare away. As they dig deeper into the mystery, though, Jack has to put her own reluctance in the back seat and help Piper navigate a whole different world - because the beloved grandmother has her own mysterious past, one that has already cost lives... and souls. With the help of the enigmatic and beautiful psychic Emmaline, Jack and Piper must confront the strange world on the other side of the mirror. Some mysteries can only be solved with magic!

The case: a double murder covered up to look like suicides.The best lead: …a rabbit? Auckland Detective Jack Duarte and her still-green-behind-the-ears partner, Piper, are called to investigate a double murder and quickly discover that someone is actively targeting local mages for death. But why? Stuck with an orphaned pet rabbit who was the only witness to the murders and few other leads, Jack and Piper dig deeper into the local magical community to search for clues. Everything goes off the rails when Emmaline, the psychic who helped Jack in the past and is her not-quite-but-maybe love interest, ends up in the cross-hairs of the murderers. Time is running out for Jack and Piper to find the culprits as the rising tide of anger against magic users starts to threaten everyone they both hold dear. Meanwhile, both Jack and Piper are also facing their own personal challenges. Jack has to make some hard decisions about her future, including her job and her relationship with Emmaline. Piper juggles facing their own fears about magic with taking care of the eccentric rabbit witness (who isn't quite as normal as it first appeared!). A visit to a secret magical-creature reserve has unexpected consequences, revealing just how imperilled and entangled the magic community is.If Jack and her rag-tag team of underappreciated heroes are unable to bring the murderers to justice, more innocents will die, and the city's paranormal denizens will have nowhere safe to turn when the cauldron of hate and fear boils over. Some mysteries can only be solved if you break all the rules…