A Spotted Tail

Paxine has a gift.

On Paxine's twelfth birthday, a gift changes her life. Her mysteriously influential grandma gives her a spotted cat named Tache. Paxine can talk to Tache and he can talk to her. She also discovers her grandma's influence extends further than Paxine ever imagined. Her grandma is the Director of a secret organization, a position Paxine is destined to inherit. Paxine finds she is no longer living within the confines of a protected childhood, but in the hazardous world of adults.

Her dad isn't happy. He worries that a curious cat will compromise the complex security that surrounds his family. But her dad's security isn't a match for a devious person who is trying to control the government…and that person wants Paxine dead. Is it because of her grandma's powerful secret organization or her father, a political lawyer?

Paxine finds that her dad's security, and even her grandma's, cannot protect her.

Is Tache, her Tail, her only protection?