Dane's a Decrypter down on his luck -- after accidentally dispatching the wrong creature, he's sent to a small town where the cryptids he hunts are sparse. Crypt Coffee becomes his business front, but instead of a thrilling new mission on the side, he's stuck sending ghosts back to where they came from. Dane can annoy customers, at least, and tries to scare off Professor Sean Sanderson when he starts poking around too much.<br><br>But Sean isn’t about to stay away. Not when he hears about the murder of a former student, and definitely not if young, exciting Dane has information about it. But the more he allows himself to get dragged into this supernatural world of monsters and ghosts, the more the danger escalates. And if Sean and Dane aren’t careful, tracking down a murderer who can use magic might just get them killed.

Bad Seed

“Oh, hell,” said Dane, yanking his seatbelt and clicking it into place as hard as he could. “Not this.”


“We’re not going to talk about it?” asked Sean. Dane knew he was examining him but he refused to look over.


“What’s there to talk about?” He paused, ran a hand through his hair. “Look, I had fun—you obviously enjoyed yourself—there you have it. Doesn’t mean anything. Just a bit of fucking around.”


“Right,” said Sean. Dane couldn’t tell whether he was disappointed or not. But if the asshole was going to get all clingy about it, he could always report Sean to the Order and let them handle it. Not that it was decent of Dane, not that he wanted to…The sound of the engine starting interrupted his thoughts.


Sean stopped at the end of the driveway and signaled. The professor looked over at him with one of those expressions saved for annoying students.


“Going out to eat usually happens before the fucking.”


Chapter 15