#undead lover

— BLINKIE SET #1 . . . SPOOKY

I have been sitting on this cover for a few weeks now, and I am SO excited to share it with you. Once again, I worked with Crowglass Design to create the perfect cover for Oliver and Felipe’s next adventure. I thought book one was the best cover I’ve ever seen, but book two upped the ante. It also fits perfectly with what happens in this book, but I can’t give it away.

If you haven’t read book one, you can grab it here in ebook, paperback, or audiobook.

The Reanimator’s Soul is the second book in the Reanimator Mysteries series and will be out October 24th, 2023. You can preorder the ebook now, and the paperback will launch in October.

Check out the cover along with the blurb, content warnings, and the preorder links below:

Manhattan, 1897 An autistic necromancer, his undead lover, and the case that could destroy everything. When a necromancer turns up dead, Oliver and Felipe think it will be the perfect, straightforward case for their new partnership. That is, until it leads them to a clinic promising a cure for magic, but they aren’t the only ones investigating the Institute for the Betterment of the Soul. Oliver’s ex, Ansley, is in town, and he’s certain the clinic isn’t the paragon of righteousness it claims to be. Forced to help Ansley infiltrate the institute, Oliver fears he is out of his depth in his work and in love as old wounds and bad habits resurface. But Oliver isn’t the only one struggling. Pulled between his cases, Oliver, and his daughter returning home for the summer, Felipe is drowning. Just when he thinks he finally has everything under control, a new reminder of his untimely demise threatens to throw his life into a tailspin once more. Between festering wounds and secrets, Oliver and Felipe’s lives stand upon a knife’s edge. To face the evil lurking behind the clinic’s genteel smiles, they must stand together or face the destruction of the place they call home.

CWs include but are not limited to/subject to change: Gore, blood, violence, murder, descriptions of dead bodies, on page sexual content, ableism toward autistic people, discussion of past sexual assault**, period specific homophobia and language, medical abuse, conversion therapy

**as a heads-up, this comes up as a discussion between Oliver and Felipe about consent and how, being neurodivergent, that can look different. There is no on-page in-depth description of the event itself. It felt important to include this scene/discussion as autistic people are more likely to be sexually assaulted than allistics.**

You can preorder The Reanimator’s Soul at

Oooooo yeeeeeesss, of course you can!!

- They see you first through the eyes of their undead horde. Which, before you, the horde was going to desecrate and pillage the Town to find fresh bodies for the army and silver/metals for their armour and weapons.

- But seeing you, face flushed from hard labour in the fields. Sweat dripping down that gorgeous body of yours, the Lich just couldn’t bring themselves to destroy YOUR town. 

- So, instead, the horde scatters and starts bringing little gifts to you. At first you’re terrified. How else do you react when rotten, shambling corpses chase after you with flowers and little makeshift baskets of goods? 

- Confused and terrified, you lock yourself away in your home until the Lich calls back their shamblers. They’d have to think of another way to make you feel safe and accept the little shiny trinkets the Dead leave for you. 

- But over the course of a few weeks, the Dead come and go. Leaving they’re gifts and adoring letters from the Lich. The Lich comes to you in nightmares. (That’s all they know. They don’t know how to enter dreams without causing fear.) And you start to understand their intention isn’t to harm you. But to get to know you. Some days you yearned for sleep, to see the haunting figure. Speak with them about your day and possibly, despite it not being real, to hold their skeletal hand.

- When Undead animals come to you in the woods, you don’t immedately strike them with your axe. But instead speak to the Lich about your day. They are unable to talk back. But they stay by your side, guarding you until you return home. 

- You’re shunned by the Town after some time though. They chase you from your home with pitchforks and torches. Cursing your name and threating to hang you or drown you in the lake. 

- When you arrive on the Lich’s doorstep, trembling and terrified, they comfort you with whispered words and a bony embace as they usher you inside. 

- The next day, you could see the town in flames. The Dead crawling over it like rats; tearing viciously at the townsfolk until they either joined the ranks, or were devoured.