Think of Simon R. Green's dark fantasy crossed with Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden and you are pretty close to the wonderfulness of this Markhat series. This one won the 2010 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Novella. (Amazon shows a collection of 3 of these Markhat stories due out later this year. Alas, that collection does not include this one -- but it WILL let you catch up.) Highly Recommended -- well worth getting all the stories in ebook form or any other way you can find them.
