Ghost Money
Eric Carter • Book 5
by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Dawn Ursula, Nora Achrati, K'Lai Rivera
Why You'll Love This
A hundred thousand deaths are already on Eric Carter's hands — and someone just decided to weaponize the ghosts.
- Great if you want: dark urban fantasy with genuine moral weight and consequences
- The experience: gritty, relentless, and propulsive — Los Angeles never felt this haunted
- The writing: Blackmoore keeps Carter's guilt visceral without slowing the plot down
- Skip if: you haven't read the earlier books — continuity matters here
About This Book
The wreckage of the Los Angeles Firestorm haunts Eric Carter in ways that go beyond grief. A hundred thousand dead, and Carter carries the weight of every one of them—because the catastrophe was revenge for something he did. Now L.A.'s dead are restless in a new and dangerous way: ghosts are flooding through the barrier between worlds, draining the life from the living, and someone is weaponizing them. Necromancer, killer, reluctant hero—Carter has to stop a threat that keeps compounding the damage he's already caused, all while the gods he's crossed aren't finished with him yet.
Blackmoore's prose is stripped down and punchy without ever feeling thin—he writes L.A. like a city that deserves what it gets, and Carter like a man who agrees. Five books in, the Eric Carter series has built a mythology dense enough to reward longtime readers while this installment keeps the pace relentless. The moral weight here is what separates it from standard urban fantasy: Carter isn't just fighting monsters, he's reckoning with consequences, and Blackmoore doesn't let him—or the reader—off the hook.
