Red, White, and Maggie

Maggie MacKay, Magical Tracker #8.5

by Kate Danley

Nothing worse than getting ants at your picnic... unless it is vampires. It's the 4th of July and the nation is celebrating the United States' independence. Except someone dressed like George Washington has figured out a way to turn the revelers into mindless drones. Looks like a job for Maggie and Killian.

A part of the Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special short story series. This stands independently from the main Magical Tracker series and can be read at any time and in any order.

WARNING: This series contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed at your own risk.

Genres: Vampires

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 27, 2017

About the author

Kate Danley began her writing career as an indie author in 2010. Since then, her books have been published by 47North, she spent five weeks on the USA Today bestseller list, and she has been honored with various awards, including the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year (The Woodcutter), McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year (Queen Mab), Best of 2014 by Suspense Magazine (M&K Tracking), and the 2017 Utopia Award for Best Anthology of the Year (Once Upon A Kiss - "Galatea & Pygmalion"). Her play Building Madness won the prestigious Panowski Playwriting Award and her play Bureaucrazy was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her works have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, and the UK. She has over 300+ film, television, and theatre credits to her name, and specializes in sketch, improv, and Shakespeare. She wrote sketch for a weekly show in Hollywood and has performed her original stand-up at various clubs in LA. She learned on-camera puppetry from the man who played Mr. Snuffleupagus and performed the head of a 20-foot dinosaur on an NBC pilot. She lost on Hollywood Squares.

Reviews

[KATHY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Red, White and Maggie: A Maggie MacKay Short Story

Good grief can't Maggie, Killian and her family enjoy just one Fourth of July celebration??!!!
All started out well for Maggie MacKay (a magical tracker), Killian (her elf partner), Maggie's family and friends at a local park. They, Maggie, Killian, Maggie's Mom, Dad, sister Mindy, her husband Austin and friends couldn't wait for the hot dogs, potato salad, chip and beverages to be served!

But of course someone came to the cookout without an invitation! He immediately started to cause all sorts of mayhem, invited other nasty creatures to attend and tried his musical best to ruin the day and the fireworks display!!

BUT he had no idea he was facing the MacKay family and their friends!! After much destruction, fighting and bodily harm the MacKay's stepped up to the plate and along with Mindy's family favorite "magical brownie" sent the musical imposter sailing away, literally!

A great and humorous story and the fireworks were fantastic !!

Kathy Barber Doyle - 8/17/2018

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really short, super quick read. I thoroughly enjoyed the chaos and confusion, complete with all the familiar faces in the Maggie crew (or M-team).

What starts as a simple BBQ ends up (of course) going horribly wrong. There's paranormals, humans, and anything in between all thrown into danger. Oh, and there's fireworks! This is a very short story, so don't expect huge impact. It probably is more accurately somehow in parallel to the last book, not after it, since all these books line up without pause.

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent humorous story! A good twist on an old story with lots of bad guys thrown in. New friends and a happy ending! I am still waiting for Maggie and Killian to get together! Killian learns some new things on old traditions and things not to do, lol!

[Jenette · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was fun getting a little glimpse at how the MacKay family celebrates the holiday and it was nice to have a moment of normal fun without all the doom and gloom of the current problems our favourite characters are facing in the series proper.

[Netta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pipstrelle is officially my favorite! He's so cute and saves the day without meaning to. The bottle rocket was a nice touch. Even though it was short it was still packed with a lot of stuff. I loved it!

[Patty Ram · Rating 5 out of 5]

Family, friends and chaos - what's not to love.
Fun little read.

[Pernille Olsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I luuuuve Maggie and all her entourage. So thanks to Kate Danley for giving us this little fun story while we wait for the Next book

[Lois Alston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great

Such a cute story. Maggie saved the day as always. Lots of laughs and excitement. A great short story. Love Maggie stories.

[Shiv · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun holiday short! I do the brownie so it was good to see more focus on him (as in the last Halloween one)

[Alexandra Dresel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious! Fun read

I was laughing out loud on the second page and didn't stop. Snarky humor at it's best. I can't wait for the next full length Maggie adventure!

[Sarah Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a funny short proving Killian learned nothing about Humans for his degree.

[Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

As I suspected it was a good read.

There was a lot of excitement in this fast and short story and I enjoyed it very much. It all worked out for the good. That if you were on Maggie's side.

[Elizabeth Fraley · Rating 2 out of 5]

One long fight scene with no real story to speak of.