The Harrowing

Zoe Flynn’s sister, Lucy, is dead. The police call it suicide and indeed it was. Murder by suicide. After witnessing an apparition of her sister, Zoe, a private investigator by trade, uses her skills to delve into Lucy’s life and death. What she discovers is a world she had believed to be a figment of her over fertile childhood imagination. A world of Angels and Demons, zombies and witches, monsters and heroes, ghosts and ghouls. Zoe, a disgraced ex-detective, uncovers things about her sister that she never knew and finds links to her own past and the death of her mother twenty years ago. Charlie, the lead detective on her sister’s case and Zoe’s one time mentor, warns her to let it go, but Zoe has never been one to back down. Soon her digging winds her up on the FBI’s wanted list as the prime suspect in her sister’s murder. Only the FBI agents that visit her aren’t exactly normal and it seems that Charlie has been keeping secrets. But Zoe does have help; Warden, the Half-Angel guardian of her family, and his friend Geremial, an unfailingly well mannered zombie. With their aid Zoe uncovers a plot to plunge the world into eternal darkness by an organization known as the Collective and they want her body. Her dead body that is. Zoe discovers within herself a power she had forgotten and the courage to do what’s right at any cost. She and her dog Thorn, who turns out to be more than he seems, join with Warden and Geremial in a fight to save the world from the shadows. Can Zoe and her friends stave off the forces of darkness or will the world be consumed by the Collective and its strange god?