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Dive into Jon Madigan's latest urban fantasy tales.
The Laughing Room
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Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Nick Hayes touches the dead and relives how they died. It's a gift that comes with a price—the migraines, the nosebleeds, the pieces of other people's terror that lodge in his brain like shrapnel. Every time costs him. He does it anyway.
Three hundred people walk into a San Diego nightclub. At 11:47 p.m., every one of them drops dead—laughing. No toxin. No trauma. No cause of death that belongs in any textbook. The clocks stop. The disco ball keeps spinning. The room gets cold.
The city calls it a gas leak. Nick knows better. He touched one of them.
What he finds beneath the Laughing Room is older than the city—a wound buried under a century of concrete, a bound Entity feeding on the living, and a coalition called Dominion that wanted it unleashed.
Nick refuses to sign the lie. It costs him his job, his credibility, and nearly his mind. But it gains him allies: an assistant medical examiner with a dead brother and a hidden archive, a homicide detective with no patience for lies, and a vampire who knows what's buried under the Gaslamp Quarter.
The dead want a witness. Nick is the only one listening.
The Time Harvest
Coming September 2026 with thrilling twists.
Dr. Nick Hayes touches the dead and relives how they died. It's a gift that comes with a price—the migraines, the nosebleeds, the pieces of other people's terror that lodge in his brain like shrapnel and never leave. Every time costs him. He does it anyway.
The man on his table tonight is forty-four. His cells are eighty. Someone didn't kill David Parker. They drained him—siphoned his years through a device clamped to his wrist while he was still breathing, still thinking about his daughter's graduation.
Parker isn't the first. He's just the first one Nick has touched.
What Nick uncovers beneath San Diego's surface is an economy—invisible donors, wealthy recipients, and an organization called Dominion that has turned stolen time into a commodity. Nick and the Night Crimes Unit go to war: an assistant medical examiner who codes like a weapon, a former detective with nothing left to lose, and a two-hundred-year-old vampire whose patience has run out.
Dominion has the city. They have the mayor. They have been doing this long enough to believe they are untouchable.
They've never had someone who can hear the dead.
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