When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to listen...
As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead--an ability
that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is
compounding. But her magic isn't the only thing causing havoc in her
life. While she's always been on friendly terms with Death himself,
things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal. Then
there's her sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the
glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best friend has
been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie.
But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a string of
suicides occur in Nekros City and Alex is hired to investigate. The
shades have no memory of the days leading up to their brutal endings, so
despite the very public apparent suicides, this is murder. But what kind
of magic can overcome the human will to survive? And why do the shades
lack the memory of their deaths? Searching for the answer might mean
Alex won't have a life to remember at all...