Fun story. It's yet another different universe - definitely not Witch and Wolf, despite shifters; nor is it Magical Vigilante Librarian, though the buying of contracts and especially the kind and crazy family have a lot of echoes. Weird magic; I wonder, is all the world divided up into "quadrants", or is that purely a US thing? She mentions escaping to Mexico once...would that be the equivalent of a fifth quadrant, and yet another switch of magic? Our Heroine is, as she's shown on the cover, a fox-girl; she can't put away her ears and tail. She carefully hides that she can in fact shift all the way to fox, and pretends that the ears and tail are all she has. She's also hiding magical talent. We meet her running from a bounty hunter, and also a set of tornado funnels...and things really don't calm down at any point in the story. She's got some good people behind her, and a lot of luck - both good and bad (wish we'd, she'd, gotten to see more of Carl). The story ends with her...well, captured isn't exactly the right word. But she's out of her hardscrabble existence, has quite a bit of power behind her and a new mission...and a (crazy, but kind) family around her that's likely to be more disconcerting for her than any of the above. Santos is interesting, and interested, but she's got more on her mind than romance. Presumably things will advance, in some direction, in the next and the third book; I'll definitely be reading them. ( )