The Bad Magic Historical Fantasy Series · Book II
Necromancers
and Navy Grog
San Francisco, 1881. The city glitters with gaslight and gold—but darkness runs deeper than the Bay.
Mick Kelly is a death eater, a Gleaner who feeds on the power released when people die. It's kept her alive through the Civil War and countless battles since. But when her partner turns up murdered and a Bureau of Magical Investigation agent vanishes, Mick finds herself suspended, powerless, and out of options.
Enter Gold Tooth Mary—crime lord, and the most dangerous woman in the Barbary Coast. She's hunting a priceless jade artifact, and she needs a bodyguard who won't die easy.
The job: simple protection work.
The catch: everyone from Chinatown matriarch Ah Toy to a hidden necromancer wants the same prize, and they're willing to kill for it.
With hop-heads turned into monsters prowling the docks, revenants rising in the fog, and a vengeful rusalka haunting the waterfront, Mick must choose her allies carefully. Because in a city where magic hides behind every corner and betrayal wears a charming smile, the only thing more dangerous than her enemies might be the women asking for her help.
The second book in the Mick Kelly series delivers supernatural noir, gaslit intrigue, and a cast of dangerous women who refuse to play by anyone's rules—including each other's.