READING, WRITING, AND RAISING THE DEAD 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 … 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.
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I have read this series two times now. Love the characters. I struggled with her drug use but it is realistic to her life.
Stacia Kane has continued the story of Chess Putnam, a young woman with both a great talent for magic and a seriously screwed up personal life. She is desperately juggling to keep all the balls in her life in the air while maintaining the front that she is a responsible member of the establishment instead of drug addicted and insecure.
She and …
Sacrificial Magic
Downside Ghosts, Book 4
By: Stacia Kane
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
I really enjoy this series. The world building is wonderful and the characters are terrific! Ghost hunting like no other books! Always several layers of interest going on at the same time. The only thing that is getting old is the repetitive love angst between …
Stacia Kane’s Sacrificial Magic, book #4 in her Downside Ghosts series is her best book to date. If you’re not reading this series about a drug addicted ghost busting witch investigator, you need to start reading ASAP. This series of books shouldn’t work for me since I’m not a big fan of ghosts, or the plight of a drug addicted protagonist, who …