✥ Spell conjurers (wizards), ghostly spectres, knights,

The Dowsing Rod: tavern owned and run by Ethan's lady friend, Kannice.

The Price of Doing Business (2014) ~ Novella - set in 1761, Ethan Kaille, is trying to make a name for himself as a thief taker ( Free: Tor) 'A Memory of Freedom' () in Issue 27 of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show - set in 1760, Ethan Kaille’s early life ~ Free 'The Tavern Fire' () in After Hours: Tales of the Ur-Bar - set in 1760, other character ~ Free 'A Spell of Vengeance' (2012) ~ eShort - set in 1762, Ethan Kaille’s early life ( Free: Tor)

Shorts, Novellas, Anthologies and Guides An Urban Fantasy that takes place during the American Revolution.But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others…until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. Historical Urban Fantasy / Historical Fantasy / Mystery (blend)īoston, 1767: In D.B. 3.1 Shorts, Novellas, Anthologies and Guides.But he can't stop now, for his magic has marked him, so he must fight the odds, even though he seems hopelessly overmatched, his doom seeming certain at the spectral hands of one he cannot even see. Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. His adversary has already killed - and not for his own gain, but in the service of his powerful masters, people for whom others are mere pawns in a game of politics and power. Suddenly, he faces another conjurer of enormous power, someone unknown, who is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power in the turbulent colony.

Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson