She builds faces for the dead. This one built one back.

Dr. Celia Beckman has spent twenty years pressing clay over bone in a Chicago basement, and twenty years not telling anyone what else she can do — that the dead leave a residue, and she can read it.

Case No. 4022 comes out of a collapsed embankment with no name, no file, and nobody looking....

She built the wall that keeps his kind out. Her own magic just opened a door in it.

Devi Grail has given her whole life to the treaty that keeps the peace. She is the coven’s Wardmaker, the living seam between Boston’s witches and the ancient vampire clan on Beacon Hill, and she has buried every want she ever had beneath her duty to the wall. She...