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FIRST IN A BRAND NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIESBecause Im an inbetweenerand the only one anyone knows of at thatthe dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, its something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldnta been.Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Deads most unusual agentsan inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life thats missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kinduntil he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death. One inbetweener is a sorcerer. Hes summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and theyre spreading through the city like a plague. Theyve already taken out some of NYCODs finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworldwhich would destroy the balance between the living and the dead.
About the Author
Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Middle Grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, and the award winning Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher, which won the International Latino Book Award and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers' Literature, the Andre Norton Award, the Locus, the Mythopoeic Award, and named one of Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read. You can find his thoughts on writing, read dispatches from his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic and hear his music at http://danieljoseolder.net/, on youtube and @djolder on twitter.
