Listen when the dead speak. Ghosts don’t just haunt mystical and otherworldly New Orleans, where spirits linger in the lurid settings of past horrific crimes. They also follow FBI Special Agent Claire Legacy. And now she’s returned to the place where tragedy stains her soul as surely as blood stains the carpet beneath her grandmother’s rug. But before she can face her past, she’s pulled into someone else’s nightmare. Her new assignment in the New Orleans field office is stranger than fiction: four high-profile members of a paranormal investigation team are dead after a gas explosion decimates the haunted mansion they were filming in. When another ghost hunter dies—and then another—each death more gruesome than the last, it becomes clear this is no coincidence. In a city ruled by the macabre, something wicked is at play. But is the threat otherworldly... or all too human? With three teams targeted in as many days and six people dead, the clock is ticking. And Claire must exorcise this real-life demon who’s turning ghost stories into brutal reality. Lethal Legacy , the chilling first book in the Claire Legacy FBI series by bestselling authors Mary Stone and Alex Gates, will make you believe in ghosts—the real kind, and the ones we carry with us.