Introduction: In a city where magic festers in the shadows and the dead don't stay quiet, P.I. Gideon Shaw takes cases no one else will鈥攂ecause most wouldn't survive them.When a desperate woman hires him to break a deadly curse binding her sister, Shaw and his ghostly partner, Silas "Slim" Sullivan, are dragged into a sinister web of dark magic, vengeful spirits, and ruthless sorcerers. The deeper Shaw digs, the clearer it becomes: this isn鈥檛 just another job. The curse is more dangerous than it seems, and the people pulling the strings? Even worse.With time running out and danger closing in, Shaw must outwit both the living and the dead to break the curse and stay alive.Step into a gritty, supernatural noir where the stakes are deadly, the magic is lethal, and nothing is as it seems....