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Solving crime isn’t only for the living.
In turn-of-the-century New York City, the police have an off-the-books spiritual go-to when it comes to solving puzzling corporal crimes . . .
Her name is Eve Whitby, gifted medium and spearhead of the Ghost Precinct. When most women are traveling in a gilded society that promises only well-appointed marriage, the confident nineteen-year-old Eve navigates a social circle that carries a different kind of chill. Working with the diligent but skeptical Lieutenant Horowitz, as well as a group of fellow psychics and wayward ghosts, Eve holds her own against a host of dangers, detractors, and threats to solve New York’s strangest crime as only her precinct can.
But as accustomed as Eve is to ghastly crimes and all matters of the uncanny, even she is unsettled by her department’s latest mystery. Her ghostly conduits are starting to disappear one by one as though snatched away by some evil force determined to upset the balance between two realms, and most important—destroy the Ghost Precinct forever. Now Eve must brave the darkness to find the vanished souls. She has no choice. It’s her job to make sure no one is ever left for dead.
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The Spectral City
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The Spectral City
Leanna Renee Hieber
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First Electronic Edition: November 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1-63573-058-6
eISBN-10: 1-63573-058-9
First Print Edition: November 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-63573-061-6
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Prologue
Manhattan dinner parties in the gilded 1890s had become a studied spectacle in opulence for the ruling class of the country’s wealthiest city. The bustling, ever striving, never sleeping metropolis’s class of most fashionable, up-to-date, technologically accessorized, bejeweled and beholden to no one but themselves were the kinds of company that the Prenze family kept, curating people and their statuses like one might think of assembling a stock portfolio.