Gale Force (38 page)

OUTCAST SEASON: UNDONE

by Rachel Caine

For millennia, the Djinn Cassiel, so powerful as to be preceived as omnipotent by humanity, lived apart from mortals and dismissed them as unworthy of her thoughts or energy.

But after refusing a direct order from her ruler, she has been banished, cast out, and cut off from the source of her power—forced to take physical form to survive. What’s worse, without receiving a regular influx of energy from a human Warden, she will die.

Now Cassiel the great, Cassiel the terrible, is living in New Mexico and assisting the Earth Warden Manny Rocha with his filing. But as she gets to know Manny and his family—his wife, his daughter, and his intriguing brother, Luis—she begins to develop a reluctant affection for them.

And Cassiel will learn that humanity may be worth more than she ever suspected.

About the Author

Rachel Caine
is the author of more than twenty novels, including the Weather Warden series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Carl Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Pop-eye and Darwin, a
mali uromastyx
named (appropriately) O’Malley, and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course). Visit her Web site at
www.rachelcaine.com
.