Imagine my surprise – and a very pleasant one it was at that – to see a cover, summary, and release date posted for the fourth book in Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series on the author’s web site. Take a look at this lovely:
Publisher’s Summary:
“When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity: Chess’s boyfriend, Terrible, doesn’t trust her, and Lex, the son of a rival crime lord, is trying to reignite the sparks between him and Chess.Plus there’s the little matter of Chess’s real job as a ghost hunter for the Church of Real Truth, investigating reports of a haunting at a school in the heart of Downside. Someone seems to be taking a crash course in summoning the dead—and if Chess doesn’t watch her back, she may soon be joining their ranks.
As Chess is drawn into a shadowy world of twisted secrets and dark violence, it soon becomes clear that she’s not going to emerge from its depths without making the ultimate sacrifice.”
No matter how much wanting NOW I do, the immutable fact is that Sacrificial Magic won’t be released until March 27th of next year. That’s not terribly far, I suppose, but considering how much I adore Terrible, that wonderful gang enforcer (and if you’d told me I’d use those three words back to back I’d have choked on a laugh. Or maybe my own spit, in keeping with the grit of the series), it’s an excruciating wait. Guess I’ll have to console myself with constant rereads of excerpts from chapters one and two as posted here and here. On second thought, that will only make it worse. Damn.
