Chase Cassidy, a Harlem Hellfighter turned police officerr, thought the worst was behind him-until a string of ritualistic child murders rocks the arcane slums of Madhatten. The victims: Fey-blooded children. The suspects: unknown. The message: unmistakable.
Summoned by the Bureau of Arcane Enforcement and deputized as a hex-breaker, Chase is pulled into a deadly investigation that leads him through speakeasies, alchemical dens, and the blood-soaked history of America's magical experiments. What he uncovers is chilling: a secret society known as the Court of Bones is conducting a dark resurrection ritual to bring back the long-dead Lord of Bones, a necromantic tyrant who once bathed continents in blood.
Forced to confront the demon tethered to his own soul, Chase finds an unlikely ally in Skye Anderson-a brilliant, no-nonsense lawyer with her own scars and secrets. Together, they follow a trail of death and corruption that winds through the highest echelons of power and down into the catacombs beneath the city.
But as the ritual nears completion and the Court's true goal is revealed, Chase must make an impossible choice: unleash the infernal magic within him-or watch the world fall to bone and ash.
In a city where the dead don't stay buried, and magic comes with a price, justice wears a trench coat and wields a Tommy gun.