“Well, Amy’s currently on maternity leave. And I see that you have a theoretical background in hauntings,” Taylor said, a glint in her eye.

Fieldwork at Britain’s paranormal detection agency had always seemed prestigious to Tom Bailey, but that was before he bought a house and settled down. Being a boring office drone doesn’t seem so bad anymore, not compared to meeting a grisly end and becoming yet another vacancy for recruitment to backfill.

However telling your manager you’re incompetent is not a winning advancement strategy, so with the department’s usual exorcist on leave Tom is forced out of his cubicle and into the world of ghosts, witches and cultists.

The one university module on ghost stories that he used to pad out his CV isn’t going to cut it. If Tom wants to keep his career and his head he’s going to have to learn the tricks of the trade, and fast.

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