How to Claim an Undead Soul by Hailey Edwards

Keeping a wary eye on it, I crossed the bedroom, but it just hovered there. I flicked my wrists, shooing it away before shoving to my feet. The creature didn’t voice an answer-I wasn’t certain it could do more than wail-but it did swing its withered arm toward the window. “What do you want?” I touched my stinging cheek, the skin beneath my probing fingers icy where it had caressed me. I cracked open my eyes, which were damp with tears, and then I screamed again, louder and longer, until my uvula swung like a clacker against the sides of a cowbell.Ī wraith billowed in front of me, its emaciated arm extended, its skeletal fingers outstretched.Īlerted by my frantic shrieks, Woolly flipped on every light in my bedroom and cranked them to blinding levels like halogen alone might banish the creature. I registered the unyielding press of the hardwood floor under my butt and the comforting wedge of the corner where I invariably spent my days huddled in a nest of sheets.

How to Claim an Undead Soul ExcerptĪ scream got hung in my throat, and I choked awake with it lodged halfway to my lips. It’s a deadly threat unleashed by one of their own, and the cost of saving her city might be her life. When Grier stumbles across the menace preying on Savannah’s supernatural community, what she uncovers is bigger than a few flickering lampposts gone dark. Spirits are vanishing from well-known hot spots on the ghost tour circuit, and vampires are turning up as shriveled husks.

Her work as a Haint is the one thing that makes her feel normal, but even that’s more paranormal than usual. Now she’s carrying the baggage that goes along with the title of Dame Woolworth, and shouldering that weight is giving her a serious crick in the neck. Life was simpler for Grier when she was flat broke and a social pariah. The Black DogConnected SeriesReading OrderĪmazon The Beginner’s Guide to Necromancy, Book 2.

How to Claim an Undead Soul by Hailey Edwards