He thinks he knows me. But really he's only seeing what lies above the surface. The rest is hidden, and it's going to stay that way . . .Most people think Ava is a monster—but now she's been set free.She was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. They called her Butcher Bird. Now, freshly released with a new identity and a new home, Ava finally has the quiet life she's always wanted.But someone discovers who she really is, and they're determined to ...

"Banks's debut marks the start of a promising urban fantasy series, something like Ghostbusters with a British accent." - Publisher's WeeklyKester Lanner didn't know what to expect when he followed his mother's dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn't expecting to find his long lost father. Nor was he expecting to join the family business: catching supernatural spirits.Kester is intrigued despite his fear, and finds himself...

"A thoroughly engaging read for anyone, whether new to the series or not." - BooklistOnly a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven't improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract which they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr Ribero's sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the ...

A reckless cult. An ancient daemon. Can one agency save the world?Still recovering from a case in Lyme-Regis, Dr. Ribero's agency faces a greater threat: a cult conspiring with a powerful Daemon to open a spirit door, unleashing chaos. The agency joins forces to prevent the cult from ending the world's protection from dangerous spirits.For fans of supernatural mysteries, this gripping tale features eccentric characters, a gothic setting, and a suspenseful p...

In this spellbinding psychological suspense, a London couple flees gossip and suspicion—but in a house full of secrets, there is nowhere to hide . . .When people say they love the sea, they don't really mean it. Because they don't know what that means or what the sea really is.It's full of more darkness than you can imagine. Secrets down in the blackness, tangled in the weeds. Things that can hurt you.I don't want to imagine what is down there in the d...

A haunting tale of memory, love, and loss across time.In London, 2017, a nameless ghost drifts through time, searching for his lost identity and the love of his life. His memories, a tantalizing mix of steam-age London, family warmth, and horrific tragedy, slip away with each passing day. Shepherded by a fortune teller, his only companion in a world consumed by electricity and isolation, he clings to the hope of rediscovering his past.As the ghost navigates...

Kester and Ribero's team of inept supernatural investigators are back again. But this time, the stakes have been raised. Hrschni, a powerful daemon leading the Thelemites, is hellbent on bringing spirits back to the world of the humans . . . at any cost. Kester needs to gain control of his unique abilities while coming to terms with the fact that his mother had more secrets than he realized. He must also decide where his allegiances really lie. As the twisted truths keep coming out, he fin...

Kester is a wanted man. After letting the daemon Hrschni escape, Infinite Enterprises are hunting Kester down, and the rest of Ribero's supernatural agency swear they'll never forgive him. But who can he trust, Hrschni or Infinite Enterprises? While on the run, he reencounters the powerful daemon, who uses his powers to take Kester back and forth in time. As a spectre of the past, Kester must learn the truth about his mother while staying one step ahead of agents on his tail. But when Miss...

Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven’t improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract that they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr. Ribero’s sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the team accepts and begins to investigate the seaside town of Lyme Regis, where elderly victims are dying. The same mysterious clue links ...

Still recovering from the case of a serial-killer spirit in Lyme-Regis, Dr. Ribero’s agency is soon confronted with an even greater threat: a reckless cult conspiring with an ancient and powerful Daemon to open a permanent spirit door so that spirits will have unfettered access to the human realm. Having just witnessed the lethal consequences uncontrolled spirits can have on the unsuspecting, the agency joins forces with several others to prevent the cult from unleashing chaos and ending t...

London, 2017. A long-dead ghost—nameless, all but formless, trapped beyond both the living and the afterlife—drifts through time in search of himself. What happened to him? To the love of his life? His memories slip away like the tide, tantalizingly close but always receding. His lost world of steam, family, and horrific tragedy comes to him in flickers and gasps. But decades—the steam age, the war years, the age of counterculture—soon melt and disappear, consumed by a strange, hungry worl...

Kester and Ribero’s team of inept supernatural investigators are back again. But this time, the stakes have been raised. Hrschni, a powerful daemon, together with the rest of the Thelemites, are hellbent on bringing spirits back to the world of the humans...at any cost. Kester needs to gain control of his unique abilities while coming to terms with the fact that his mother had more secrets than he realized. He must also decide where his allegiances really lie. As the twisted truths keep co...