A DEADLY HIGH
Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict
Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are
willing to pay for a chemical rush. But when someone with money to burn
and a penchant for black magic starts tampering with Downside’s drug
supply, Chess realizes that the unlucky customers are paying with their
souls — and taking the innocent with them, as the magic-infused speed
compels them to kill in the most gruesome ways possible.
As if the streets weren’t scary enough, the looming war between the two men
in her life explodes, taking even more casualties and putting Chess
squarely in the middle. Downside could become a literal ghost town if
Chess doesn’t find a way to stop both the war and the dark wave of
death-magic, and the only way to do that is to use both her addiction
and her power to enter the spell and chase the magic all the way back to its malevolent source. Too bad that doing so will probably kill
Chess — if the war doesn’t first destroy the man who’s become her reason
for living.
The series
In Chess Putnam’s world, ghosts are real, and — what’s worse — they’re dangerous. Lucky for her, she has the ability to hunt and banish them, which she puts to good use in her job as a debunker. People who try to get government money by claiming they’ve got a ghost need to go through Chess first. It’s up to her to decide whether they’re committing fraud — and she rarely makes mistakes. Dark, sexy, and always suspenseful, the Downside Ghosts series chronicles Chess’s adventures in a frightening, fascinating world wholly unlike our own.
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