How to Save an Undead Life (Beginner's Guide to Necromancy #1)

Beginner's Guide to Necromancy, Book 1

Grier Woolworth spends her nights weaving spooky tales of lost souls and tragedies for tourists on the streets of downtown Savannah, Georgia. Hoop skirt and parasol aside, it's not a bad gig. The pay is crap, but the tips keep the power on in her personal haunted mansion and her pantry stocked with ramen.

Life is about as normal as it gets for an ex-necromancer hiding among humans. Or it was until the society that excommunicated Grier offers her a second chance at being more than ordinary. All she has to do is say yes to a proposal that puts a ring on her finger and a collar around her neck. The cost of redemption is obedience as the lethal practitioner who left her to rot in a cell all those years ago is handed her leash.

Linus Andreas Lawson III never expected to see his childhood friend Grier again. Not after the night she plunged an anthame into his grandmother's heart, and certainly not after he watched stone-faced while the society matrons sank phantom fingers in her soul and plucked out the kernel of her budding powers. But his mother, it seems, has other plans.

As the Lawson clan heir, he isn't surprised to find himself the victim of an arranged marriage, but when the identity of his future bride is revealed, Linus is furious. But as hot as his anger burns, it's nothing compared to the electric tension that crackles each time he shares air with Grier. Their marriage is as doomed as their friendship was, but once their vows are spoken, and she is bound to his will, he plans to learn what really happened the night his world--and his heart--shattered. Rated '1/5 - Glimpses and kisses' for steam/spice/heat level.