The Protector

by Annie Reed

A monster stalks the unwary on the foggy streets of San Francisco. A serial killer disguised as an ordinary, everyday, unremarkable man. 

But he’s not the only hunter in the city. 

The Protector has returned to the city by the bay. She provides benediction to her murdered kin—the young mother killed while protecting her child from the monster. The Protector walks through the city in the form of an unremarkable woman, but she is far from unremarkable, and she is definitely not human. 

She is vengeance. She is retribution. She is a being of power and fur and teeth, and she will not rest until she takes revenge for the murder of her kin. 

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About the Author

Award-winning author Annie Reed describes herself as a desert rat who longs to live by the ocean. Since she hasn’t yet convinced her family to relocate to a nice chunk of beachfront property, she’s done the next best thing—written a series of stories set in a contemporary Pacific Northwest city where magic and reality go hand in hand.

Private investigators Diz and Dee populate Annie’s more lighthearted stories, while denizens of a much rougher neighborhood lurk in her Tales From the Shadows.

A talented and versatile writer whose fantasy, science fiction, and mystery stories have sold to a wide variety of publications, including five of the first seven volumes of Fiction River’s inaugural year.