Part of Series
In this sequel to The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana, Lee Fontana is back in prison after a successful switch-and-bait robbery. A few mouths and the old convict will be out, free to dig up the treasure and skip the country. Or will he? With the devil planning revenge against Lee for a three-generation vendetta, only the ghost cat sees the full picture, the big golden tomcat who travels with Lee, who can appear or disappear as he pleases—a cat of love and wit with his own fierce desire for revenge against the wrongs of the world. When Satan snares not only Lee but a little child across the country with whom Lee has an unknown connection, Lucifer means to estroy them both. The child’s prescient dreams, her predictive powers, enrage the devil. To hurt her, he sees that her father, Morgan Blake, is falsely imprisoned, framed by a sleazy killer who is also connected to Lee. When both Lee and Morgan end up in the Atlanta Pen, the little girl’s prophetic dreams turn violent, terrifying her. The ghost cat comforts her—and he fights beside Lee as the two convicts plan a nearly impossible escape to right a wrong, to defeat Satan’s plan of destruction. A magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, written with her husband Pat J. J. Murphy.
Author
Shirley Rousseau Murphy is the author of over 40 books, including 24 novels for adults, the Dragonbards Trilogy and more for young adults, and many books for children. She is best known for her Joe Grey cat mystery series, consisting of 21 novels, the last of which was published when she was over 90. Now retired, she enjoys hearing from readers who write to her at her website www.srmurphy.com, where the reading order of the books in that series can be found. Murphy grew up in southern California, riding and showing the horses her father trained. After attending the San Francisco Art institute she worked as an interior designer, and later exhibited paintings and welded metal sculpture in the West Coast juried shows. "When my husband Pat and I moved to Panama for a four-year tour in his position with the U. S . Courts, I put away the paints and welding torches, and began to write," she says. Later they lived in Oregon, then Georgia, before moving to California, where she now enjoys the sea and views of the Carmel hills. .
