The Magician (Greysmoke Rising Book 1)

JOE IS AT A CROSSROADS.

His path is the crushing monotony of capitalist existence. A good little cog, being ground to dust by an uncaring system. He can't even recognize himself in the mirror - not that he ever could, if he was honest. Nobody could understand, surely, and nobody would believe him anyway.

Too old to hope things would change and too scared to even try another way, his only solace is the world of Heroes and Villains, but even that escape has lost its luster. Ever since she left, nothing feels right anymore.

The cougar desperately needs change; to feel something, to feel anything. He needs one kind voice to acknowledge him. Someone to tell him that there's a choice. Someone to hold his paw while he takes that first step and help him blaze his own trail. Maybe then - through the ashes and the smoke - the puma can find herself, and what it means to live...