For some masterpieces, the final note is murder.

When a genius composer is killed at San Francisco's historic opera house, Detective CJ Marquez wants a simple case. He trusts hard facts. He trusts forensics. He believes the only ghosts in the grand theater are stories told to spook tourists.

He doesn't trust Adrian Yu, the victim's haunted protégé, who swears he saw a phantom in a tailcoat moments before the killing blow.

Forced into an uneasy partnership, the pragmatist and the artist must decipher a message hidden in the victim's final symphony. The notes lead them to a deadly conspiracy of embezzlement and a murder scandal buried for a hundred years. As their professional dissonance crescendos into a passionate attraction, they realize the killer is still in the house... and is preparing for an encore.

The Phantom's Protégé is the second book in the Spectral Evidence Mysteries, a new paranormal romantic suspense series where the only thing more dangerous than a killer is falling for the one person who can hear the truth.