A Questionable Client

In a world beset by magic waves, Kate Daniels works as a mercenary. She is tired, hungry, and there is foul-smelling blood on her boots. All she wants to do is to go home, but when the Mercenary Guild offers her a job she can't refuse, she finds herself protecting a man against Russian wizards.

In this intro to the Kate Daniels world, we meet the extremely shifty Saiman for the very first time, when Kate takes on the task of serving as his bodyguard to protect him from some very determined—and dangerous—Russian wizards.