Chapter 1

I was a corporate drone who stayed up every night grinding code — and sure enough, I dropped dead at my desk.

When I opened my eyes again, I was a stray black cat, cornered by a group of punks who were beating the hell out of me.

It was Yolanda who grabbed a broom and fought like her life depended on it to bring me home.

She was a woman who'd had it hard her whole life — up before dawn, pinching every penny — and somehow she'd raised a son who was pure evil.

To pay off two million dollars in gambling debts, that monster teamed up with a vicious caretaker to steal the deed to her house and use it as collateral. He even planned to sell his own mother to some creep as a bride for one million dollars.

I was so furious I unsheathed my claws on the spot and raked his face into a bloody mess.

If fate gave me a second chance at life, and put someone as good as Yolanda in my path, there was no way I was going to stand by and do nothing.

So what if I'm a cat? Even as a cat, I'll make sure every last one of these monsters ends up behind bars.