Veterinarian Hal Medley has a good life in Urchin Cove: a thriving clinic, a promising romance, and a cat who happens to be an angel. So when a beautiful antique pocket watch ends up in his pocket, what’s the harm in keeping it?
Plenty, says Jericho. The watch runs backward. It glows with a red aura. And it once belonged to a murdered man.
By the time Hal gets rid of it, the damage is done—because something has been living inside that watch since 1946, waiting for a way out. Something patients. Something vain. Something that has just found the perfect host in Mayor Rain Mallory, a woman with blood already on her hands and no soul worth fighting for.
Now a killer eighty years dead is wearing the mayor like a coat, masked agents are dragging neighbors from their homes, and the only ones who see the truth are a vet, a fired police chief, a talking cat—and a ghost with unfinished family business.
Some mirrors show more than your reflection. In Urchin Cove this summer, they show what’s coming for you.