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READING, WRITING, AND RAISING THE DEAD
When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss — who also happens to be her drug dealer — to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity:...
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Characters edit
- Chess Putnam: aka Cesaria; Witch who works for the Church as a debunker, drug addict. Terrible's girlfriend.
- Terrible: Chess’s boyfriend, an Enforcer for Bump.
- Lex: Son of a rival crime lord, Slobag. Used to be Chess' lover and drug supplier.
- Bump: Drug lord who Terrible works for
- Slobag: Crime lord, Bump's rival and Lex's father.
- Beulah: Mercy Lewis Second School's community liaison
- Elder Griffin: Church elder who has a fondness for Chess and she for him.
- Monica Freeman: Secretary to Master Elder Conrad, the school’s headmaster.
- Aros: Debunker who quit a case that was reassigned to Chess.
- Lucy McShane: Committed suicide at the school years ago. Sightings of her ghost at the school have been claimed.
- Gia: Student at Mercy Lewis Second School
- Wen Li: Teacher at Mercy Lewis Second School
- Martha Li: Married to Wen Li
- Elder Conrad: Headmaster of Mercy Lewis Second School
- Bill Pritchard: Doctor
Quotes edit
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“Chessie … shit, Chessie, I love you so bad.” His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. “So fucking much, so … so bad.”
Terrible -
“Aw, naw, ain’t sayin that. You do what you need an ain’t try telling you no, but … takin you to bed, want you there, not just your body. An want you knowin it’s me. Love you, Chess. Dig?”
Terrible -
“Always want you, Chessiebomb. Always.”
Terrible
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First Sentence edit
Had the roof over her head not been a broken mess, shredded insulation and pieces of tile dangling like the rotting innards of the living thing it had once been, she wouldn’t be getting hit on the head with cold droplets of water at odd, annoying intervals.
Table of Contents edit
Chapters 1-39
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 8 in Downside Ghosts. (standard series)
Preceded by City of Ghosts, and followed by Chasing Magic.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stacia Kane (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Del Ray
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
ISBN: 978-0345527509
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Del Ray
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
ISBN: 978-0345527509
Page Count: 416
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- Dewey: 813
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- Stacia Kane: Author's website
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