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

“I’m supposed to dig?” asked Sean, making a face. “I’m not even supposed to be here.”


Sean sighed, accepted the trowel, and knelt to dig.


Dane glanced back toward Crypt Coffee and the parking lot, but nobody was out visiting graves right now, or bothering to look their way as they shuffled into the building for coffee.


“Eh, a few inches. Nothing special. She’s not getting up again so it doesn’t have to be deep.”


“Could you make that sound a little less sexual?”


“Don’t blame me for your filthy mind, professor,” said Dane, and grinned. His own filthy mind was enjoying the sight of Sean on hands and knees. He didn’t mind admitting to himself—and only himself—that he looked forward to what they might get up to in the upcoming weeks. He suspected Sean was kinkier than he appeared at first glance. And for Dane to be interested indefinitely, there’d haveto be something more than the standard.


Chapter 73