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

Witches did things with plants and presumably could distill whatever they wanted. The Cauldwells had been Bethany’s rivals, and their Guild as well as the Order hadn’t been moving fast enough for them. Sean wanted to bring this to Dane so badly…even if it got him in trouble.


He swallowed. Maybe especially if it got him in trouble. Dane might find it easy to pick people up, but Sean had had no one but his own hand since that night with Dane. And if he gave the Decrypter some good reason to go after the witches he seemed to detest…


Sean debated driving over, then calling. Dane had dumped all of his calls into messaging before and he doubted anything different would happen now. Sean decided on texting first, then driving over, just in case Dane didn’t look at what Sean had sent, or had changed his phone number.


Chapter 35