"People don't believe in the supernatural these days. Supernatural things are scary. It's much more comfortable to rest secure in the knowledge that no-one can reach out with magic and quietly kill you, that vampires exist only in movies, and that demons are mere psychological dysfunctions." Chapter 1, p. 2

"Between the new case, the outfit hitter, and Duke Ortega's challenge, I wanted to make damn sure that I wasn't going to get caught with my eldritch britches down again." Chapter 3, p. 26

"[Susan] was one of the rare people who stopped and thought about things, even weird and supernatural things, instead of dismissing them out of hand." Chapter 4, p. 35

"Under the earth [is] where dead things fit. Graves are under the earth. So are Hell, Gehenna, Hades, and a dozen other reported afterlives ... maybe for us, under the earth is a subtle and profound statement. Maybe ground level provides us...