The Sin-Eater Chronicles

In 1859, the girls of The Secret Six are the last line of defense against the dead in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, but when the town comes under attack, something evil wakes up—and only Addy can stop it.

Adelaide Randolph has a secret: her pocket watch runs backwards—and destroys errant spirits.  She’s used to hunting wandering specters, locked in residual hauntings, or the occasional traumatic death that leaves behind a wraith.  But as she dispatches a lost soul in the cemetery, it grabs onto her and growls out a warning: You will see death.

Seeing death is normal for Addy.  But meeting Thomas Cooper, a handsome armory worker, is not.  He makes it easy to forget ghost-slaying and she’d rather find time to secretly meet with him.  But when John Brown raids the Ferry, hell-bent on starting a slave uprising, the dead are out for blood.  Now she’s having visions, she’s being haunted and hunted by creatures who know her name—and call her Sin-Eater.  Thomas can’t protect her and, as the wraiths grow stronger, Addy starts to doubt if she can even protect herself.

The deeper she digs, the more danger she finds.  Murder, human sacrifice, and a shadow stalking her from the darkness.  Angry spirits are flooding the Ferry—and they will stop at nothing until they get to her.