Where to Start with Stacia Kane
- Best entry point → Unholy Ghosts
- What fans keep coming back to → Unholy Magic
- Highest rated by listeners → City of Ghosts (Downside Ghosts #3)
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City of Ghosts
Downside Ghosts • Book 3
by Stacia Kane
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.20 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (9.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (937)13h 15m listening time • Released 2010Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this gritty urban fantasy into something genuinely haunting—her voice captures Chess's paranoia and defiance so completely you'll forget you're listening to a book.
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Sacrificial Magic
Downside Ghosts • Book 4
by Stacia Kane
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.14 ABR Score (7.6K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (825)13h 48m listening time • Released 2012Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this gritty urban fantasy into something hypnotic: her voice carries Chess through moral quicksand with the kind of dark charisma that makes you trust an unreliable narrator completely.
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Chasing Magic
Downside Ghosts • Book 5
by Stacia Kane
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.12 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)★ 4.2 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.55 Audible (770)12h 58m listening time • Released 2012Bahni Turpin's narration cuts through the grit and moral chaos of Downside with a voice so perfectly calibrated to Chess's damage that the audiobook becomes the definitive way to experience this series at its darkest.
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Unholy Magic
Downside Ghosts • Book 2
by Stacia Kane
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.04 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.0K)10h 57m listening time • Released 2010Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this dark urban fantasy into something visceral and unputdownable—her gritty delivery makes Chess Putnam's exhausted defiance feel utterly real.
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Unholy Ghosts
Downside Ghosts • Book 1
by Stacia Kane
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 3.62 ABR Score (18.3K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (16.8K) ★ 4.09 Audible (1.5K)11h 11m listening time • Released 2010Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this dark urban fantasy into something genuinely addictive—her delivery of Chess Putnam's sardonic voice and the gritty Downside world is so assured it feels inevitable.
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