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Harper Blaine was just an average small-time private investigator until she died - for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And her new abilities are landing her all sorts of strange cases.In the cold of winter, Pioneer Square''s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the streets of the underground - the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper''s friend Quinton fears he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate their mysterious cause. But when Harper turns to the city''s vampire denizens for help, they want nothing to do with her or with the investigation. For this creature is no vampire. Someone has unleashed a monster of ancient legend upon the Underground, and Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to put a stop to it . . . unless it stops her first.

Just back from London, Harper picked up some new skills while she was away. But instead of taking the time to hone them, she''d rather focus on what''s important. Like finding the two-bit perp who ''killed'' her. She''s convinced he''s a valuable clue in the puzzle of her past and her missing father, as well as a key to figuring out who''s trying to manipulate her powers and why. There''s just one problem. Turns out the man who "killed" her was murdered himself while she was away. Lucky for Harper, she has an airtight alibi, but that doesn''t mean the police are going to play nice. With Seattle''s recent surge in violence - thanks to the vampires - she''s already under suspicion. Which means Harper has to watch her step. Because finding the ghost of her ''killer'' - and rescuing her father - will mean entering into the Grey. And with her growing powers pulling her more deeply into that paranormal world, Harper''s afraid she may not be able to come back out...

After being shot in the back and dying - again - Harper''s recovery has been hard. She''s lost many of the powers she''d acquired since first becoming a Greywalker, and knows that if she dies one more time, she won''t be coming back. Her only respite from the chaos is her work . . . until she sees a ghostly car accident for which there are no records. Worse still, the victim of the fatal wreck insists he was murdered, and that the nearby community of Sunset Lakes - called ''Blood Lake'' by locals - is to blame.The picturesque area is an unlikely a haven for conspiracy but Harper soon learns that the icy waters of the lake hide a terrible power and a host of hellish beings. And both are held under the thrall of a sinister cabal that will use the darkest of arts to achieve their fiendish ends . . .

For Seattle investigator Harper Blaine, her own case may prove the most difficult to solve. Why did she - as opposed to others with near-death experiences - become a Greywalker? When Harper begins digging into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father''s early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. She sets out to find his ghost but encounters only a void where he should be, leaving her with more unanswered questions.Before she can continue her search, Harper gets an offer she can''t refuse to go to London and pursue an investigation on behalf of some very demanding vampires. But there are unpleasant surprises waiting for her, and Harper soon discovers her present trouble in England is entangled with her dark past back in Seattle - and her ultimate destiny as a Greywalker.

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she''s a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she''s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper''s been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper''s investigation reveals something else entirely-they''ve succeeded.And when one of the group''s members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human.Read Kat Richardson''s posts on the Penguin Blog.