"After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city"--

Rory Devereaux 's brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she's become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades-- London's secret ghost-fighting police-- are investigating a string of inexplicable deaths. Rory finds evidence that the deaths are not coincidental, and must convince the squad to listen to her before it's too late.