Cindypen

Ryan Banks, a skilled wizard, and a private investigator should be happy that business is pretty good for a change but now, he is getting more than he bargained for. 
In a duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must annihilate him to end the war between vampires and wizards, Professional hit men using him for target practice, the missing Shroud of Turin, a handless and headless corpse at the Ohio police, not to mention the return of Ryan's ex-girlfriend Marilyn, who is still battling with her semi-vampiric nature, and who seems to have a new man in her life. 
Should Ryan run for his life Or stand to face whatever follow?

The Wizard's Way

With my right, I flicked the free end of the handcuffs around one of the bars of the guardrail. The ring of metal cycled around on its hinge and locked into place.

Then, as I started to fall back down, I hauled hard on Victor's leg. He screamed, a horrible, high-pitched squeal, as he started to fall. Kalshazzak, finally overbalanced by the additional weight and leverage I had added to Victor's struggles, pitched over the balcony guardrail and into the smoke below, crashing down to the floor, carrying Victor with him.

There was a rush of scuttling, clicking sounds, a piercing whistle-hiss from the demon. Victor's screams rose to something high-pitched and horrible, until he sounded more like an animal, a pig squealing at slaughter, than a man.

I swung from the balcony, my feet several feet above the fray, held suspended in an acutely painful fashion by Ericson's handcuffs, one loop around my wrist, the other locked around the balcony railing.

The night I visited