The Screaming Staircase

In a London plagued by a terrifying epidemic where the dead return as malevolent apparitions, the only defense lies with Psychic Investigations Agencies staffed by gifted youth. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent with a rare ability to hear spirits, arrives in the city seeking purpose. Instead, she finds herself reluctantly joining Lockwood & Co., the smallest, most underfunded agency in London, led by the enigmatic and reckless Anthony Lockwood, and his diligent assistant, George Cubbins. When a routine assignment goes catastrophically wrong, jeopardizing their fledgling business and reputation, the trio is left with a single, desperate chance at redemption: to spend the night in the infamous Combe Carey Hall, widely considered the most haunted house in England. What awaits them inside is a labyrinth of chilling secrets, terrifying specters, and a deadly challenge that will test their courage, their skills, and their fragile alliance to its very limits. This first installment plunges readers into a suspenseful, humor-filled world where the line between life and death is terrifyingly thin.