The Redhead and Other Shapeshifters (Detective Agency "Red Cat", #1)

Lika has fiery red curls, an attitude problem, and shifter blood she didn't know she had. So when a two-meter werewolf agent recruits her from a Petersburg sidewalk to the Empire of Terra—a parallel world of vampires, mages, and assorted creatures that are supposedly just folklore—she figures the offered mountains of gold are worth a try. Three years at the Magical Academy later, things have not gone according to plan. The Ritual of Initialization, the moment every Earth-born student finall...