As a child, Dexter was secretly taught magic. His Gran sharing her ability to see ghosts. When he became a librarian, he was prepared to ignore the allure of the magic world. Until he moved back to his haunted childhood town and learnt that old habits die hard. After an almost deadly encounter, he is forced into the local magical community. Unable to get one ghost out of his head Dexter is drawn to solving her murder with journals of the detective initially tasked with solving the case.
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In 2012 two quests for revenge intersect over an absurdly named, magical dagger. Viktor and Kip, join forces to end the Silva Clan’s plan to turn other vampires into addicts through tainted, illegal blood. In the process, they realise the targets of their revenge plots aren’t as separate as they first suspected.
In 1437 after an encounter with a vampire named, Leopold Barnett, Maria Ferrer discovers a dark truth about her village. Plans for a magical weapon form as she grasps at the great future only her elder sister is promised.