Juliana Dietrich used to be a cop. That was before she uncovered corruption on the force… and found out how far her superiors were willing to go to shut her up.
She’s got a new job now. One where her uncompromising devotion to the law is encouraged rather than punished. One that brings her face to face with the kind of darkness that would make most cops run away screaming. She’s got bigger targets than human criminals these days. She protects humanity from creatures beyond this plane… by any means necessary.
Her title: Inquisitor.
She thinks she’s seen everything. Until she gets a call from an old friend on the force. There’s an angel lying murdered in a church.
Juliana didn’t know angels could die. And this killer is only getting started.
This short story is 14,000 words long. It takes place before the events of Nothing Sacred, the first book in the Nic Ward series.
Cruelty, selfishness, greed… this world is full of darkness. But light still exists, caged but undimmed, an unquenchable spark at the core of the human heart. And that spark is worth fighting for.
Some people are still willing to fight. Bloodied and broken, they rise undaunted from every defeat to fight for justice and compassion in a world that has none. But before they can drive back the world’s darkness, they’ll need to confront the darkness in their own souls.
These are the heroes at the heart of Z.J. Cannon’s work, which blends page-turning suspense with high-stakes drama to create stories about flawed and often deeply damaged people fighting against overwhelming odds to do what’s right.