NOW PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE AT RETAILERS AND ONLINE FOR SALE. A lot can change in ten years. Kate, Amaya, and Steve have been best friends since the second grade. Feelings grow while friendships fade, and the start of senior year finds them all in very different places. Kate feels lost after dumping her long-term boyfriend, the jock bully who sent Steve to the hospital and drove him away. Amaya's insecurities have led her to a string of bad choices and worse relationships. And Steve feels more comfortable rolling a 10-sided die with his raid party than actually hanging out with anyone. After three long years apart Steve jumps at the chance to see Kate and Amaya at Kate's "End of the Summer" party. None are sure where their friendship stands, but each hope for something more while fearing that a single admission of what they feel could tear them all apart again. With their night already on edge, Kate's Ex and a classmate with a grudge show up, each with their own agenda. As the sun goes down and the music turns up, all hell is ready to break loose.

++Featured Story++ Ranked #60 in Fantasy on May 13, 2016... Thank you, readers, for an amazing run... 35.5K reads! 1.6K comments! You guys rocked this! Due to publishing contract issues, the book cannot appear in entirety. Check it out on Amazon or other ebook retailers. The third book, STRAITJACKETS & HOLY WATER, will be featured in Fall 2018 in the epic urban fantasy collection RITE TO REIGN! www. RiteToReign.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The darkness is rising and one man stands against it: the exorcist mage Simon Alliant. But in Baltimore, he finally meets his match...a part-mortal divinity with the power to whisper away demons. Simon Alliant is an exorcist who battles demons, whether he wants to or not. Sometimes it's not so bad...he gets to play with magic, after all. But for Simon, magic represents a demon of another kind. He's addicted to magic and it takes more than a handful of charms to keep that particular demon at bay. Chiara is part Light, part Dark, and stubbornly mortal. The woman has a way with words: she literally talks demons into abandoning their human hosts. Simon thinks that's not the only trick she has up her sleeve-and that's pretty high praise coming from a mage like him. As intriguing as that may be, Simon has too many reasons to distrust her...one of them being his more-or-less partner, an angelic Watcher. Amidst all the celestial warnings of the rising dark comes a new prophesy that makes him wonder: is Chiara a threat to him and all of mankind? Or will she be his salvation? THE DEMON WHISPERER series includes the stories: CHARM CITY (The Demon Whisperer #1) MURDER THE LIGHT (The Demon Whisperer #2) THE ABSENT-MINDED MAGICIAN (The Demon Whisperer #3) TWELVE STEPS DOWN (The Demon Whisperer #4) and the prequel STRAITJACKETS AND HOLY WATER (The Demon Whisperer #0) You can see cover art for the books and other info at my blog: http://ash-krafton.blogspot.com/p/charm-city-demon-w.html