She talks to the dead. They talk dirty.

Lennie Pendrake runs a haunted museum in Salem, offering seances for a price. When she unlocks a cursed chest, she frees Cora Winters-a silver-tongued ghost with a talent for possession, an insatiable desire for pleasure, and a taste for the living.

Then there's Devereaux-Lennie's most trusted supplier of rare antiquities, a man who always knows exactly what she needs. She tells herself their chemistry is harmless, but the objects he brings her carry whispers of something darker.

A tryst between the living and the dead. A seance gone too far. A scandalous proposition. A secret waiting to be unearthed.

She's spent her life speaking to the dead-now one refuses to let her go.

Piper C.J., author of the bisexual fantasy series The Night and Its Moon, is a photographer, hobby linguist, and french fry enthusiast. She has an M.A. in Folklore, and a B.A. in Broadcasting, which she used in her former life as a morning show weather girl, hockey podcaster, and in audio documentary work. Now when she isn't playing with her dogs, Arrow and Applesauce, she's making tiktoks, studying fairy tales, or writing fantasy very, very quickly.