The Complete Check Your Luck Agency
by K.S. Augustin
Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.
After the tragic death of her parents, and with nothing left tying her to the United Kingdom, Ursula Formosa returns to her homeland and a job with the eccentrically-named Singapore firm, “The Check Your Luck Agency”.
What begins as an attempt to stave off boredom turns into a new way of life as the scales drop from Ursula’s eyes and she tentatively enters a realm that contains vengeful ghosts, toyol, demons, pontianak and curses, not to mention old-fashioned fraud and larceny.
As she befriends bomohs, mediums and a young woman already centuries old, Ursula’s ideas of friendship expand into a fresh view of the world that surrounds her.
But she isn’t going to be left to ease into things. A criminal mastermind, who is also a powerful sorcerer, is gathering mythical creatures to help him possess every living soul in Singapore, and he isn’t about to let the members of The Check Your Luck Agency stand in his way!
Excerpt:
“Did you have any difficulty finding the house?” Evelyn Long asked as she led me up a short flight of concrete steps.
“Well, the taxi driver wasn’t too keen to drive down the lane.”
Evelyn nodded her head. “The ignorant fear what they don’t understand,” she said.
I made a noise that might have indicated I agreed with her sentiment, and left it at that.
“I’m afraid Alfred is still meditating,” she began.
“I’m sorry,” I cut in, a shade too quickly, “I knew I shouldn’t have come. Perhaps I could pay him another visit some other time?”
I turned as if to leave and Evelyn Long grabbed me by the arm. No, “grabbed” was too gentle a term for it. Although her movement was smooth and she appeared to hold me lightly, I knew I would not be able to wrench free of her grasp without breaking flesh or limbs, or both, all of them mine. I looked up at her, startled, but saw nothing beyond polite interest. There wasn’t an ounce of strain on her face, nothing to show that she had me manacled with her slim, delicate- looking fingers.
Who – or what – was Evelyn Long?
“He won’t be much longer,” she said, as if commenting on the weather. “He’s been waiting to see you for more than a month now. We’re both glad you visited.”
And I suddenly realised that nobody knew where I was. Long and his supernaturally strong wife could do whatever they wanted with me, dispose of my dead body no doubt in the acres of primeval jungle behind their house and nobody would be the wiser. A wave of energy suddenly thrummed beneath my feet, a surge so strong I was sure that Long’s wife was able to feel it pulse through my body and travel to hers at our menacing point of contact.
“Why don’t I get you something to drink? You can relax while I fetch Alfred.”
Not a Western Urban Fantasy
My Reaction:
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KS “Kaz” Augustin loves writing human stories, whether set on Earth or out among the stars. Malaysian-born, she has traveled a goodly portion of the world and lived to tell the tale!
Her urban fantasy release, The Complete Check Your Luck Agency, consists of five books, exploring the myths and legends of the melting-pot that is south-east Asia. Come for the food, stay for the monsters! (Ghosts included at no extra charge.)
As if all that’s not enough, she’s also Chief Editor of the free online quarterly magazine, Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly.
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Mary Preston says
I love the fact that this is not a “Western Urban Fantasy”.
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Leslie Soule says
Yes! I also like that it’s not your “typical” fantasy. 🙂
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Kaz Augustin says
Thanks for hosting me, Danelle. I hope your visitors like the book as well!
bn100 says
Nice excerpt
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