The Ninth Life Author:Clea Simon Someone wants us dead...He doesn't remember his past, and his future on the cold streets is grim. Still Blackie the cat will do anything to protect Care, the young girl who saved him from deliberate drowning. Even if it means helping her find out who killed her private investigator father. But when Care and Blackie trace a tangled clue to the... more » city's most infamous fixer - who turns up murdered - Care is suddenly the prime suspect.
Now Blackie and Care race to piece together missing evidence and locate the stolen gems behind an unprecedented scam. But in a treacherous urban landscape where dead-eyed greed rules, friendship lies and hope is a killer, Blackie will need all his feline skills if he and Care are to survive this night - and the cruelest betrayal of all...« less