Sometimes you've got to fight, sometimes you've got to run. Sometimes it makes no difference at all. Detectives Pike and McDonagh are about to learn you never bring a gun to an axe fight. McDonagh is a mangy old-timer doing his best to take his new partner under his wing. Pike is a hot-headed recruit certain her partner has outlasted his usefulness. While investigating the murder of a fellow member of the Ash Falls Police Department, they're confronted with a reality neither of them thought possible. As each new discovery brings them one step closer to an unstoppable social order that has maintained the very threads of their community for generations, the mystery beneath the murder threatens to unravel Pike and McDonagh's sanity, and if they're not careful, condemn them to a fate worse than death. What starts as a mission to bring a killer to justice will end as a desperate scrap for salvation. If you're into urban fantasy and paranormal mystery/thrillers that aren't glittery and filled with angsty teens, then Holly is for you. This gritty police procedural will remind readers of The Dresden Files and The Rivers of London. Read Holly, and all the stories based in Ash Falls, for your fill of gritty, urban fantasy badness in the form of page-turning episodes that will keep you up all night.