About the Book
IT’S A THIN LINE BETWEEN ALIVE AND UNDEAD.
Chess Putnam has a
lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the
streets of Downside, and Chess’s bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to
crack the grisly case.
Chess is under a binding spell that
threatens death if she talks about the investigation, but the city’s
most notorious crime boss — and Chess’s drug dealer — gets wind of her new
assignment and insists on being kept informed. If that isn’t bad enough, a sinister street vendor appears to have information Chess needs. Only
he’s not telling what he knows, or what it all has to do with the vast
underground City of Eternity.
Now Chess will have to navigate
killer wraiths, First Elders, and a lot of seriously nasty magic — all
while coping with some not-so-small issues of her own. And the only man
Chess can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her
dead.
