Sacrificial Magic

READING, WRITING, AND RAISING THE DEAD When Chess Putnam is ordered by an notorious crime boss–who additionally occurs to be her drug supplier–to make use of her powers as a witch to unravel a grisly homicide involving darkish magic, she is aware of she should rise to the problem. Including to the depth: Chess’s boyfriend, Horrible, doesn’t belief her, and Lex, the son of a rival crime lord, is attempting to reignite the sparks between him and Chess. Plus there’s the little matter of Chess’s actual job as a ghost hunter for the Church of Actual Fact, investigating studies of a haunting at a college within the coronary heart of Draw back. Somebody appears to be taking a crash course in summoning the lifeless–and if Chess doesn’t watch her again, she could quickly be becoming a member of their ranks. As Chess is drawn right into a shadowy world of twisted secrets and techniques and darkish violence, it quickly turns into clear that she’s not going to emerge from its depths with out making the final word sacrifice.