Sylar Crowe has made a comfortable living telling grieving widows what they want to hear. His séances are theater. His exorcisms are smoke and mirrors. His conscience is... manageable.

When a wealthy heiress hires him to banish her dead uncle's ghost from the Leaveaux House, Sylar expects another easy payday in another crumbling mansion. Three nights of flickering candles and fake Latin, then back to the French Quarter with his pockets full.
But the presence in the Leaveaux House isn't a ghost.

It's a demon. Ancient, and imprisoned for three hundred years by an alchemical binding spell that's now latched onto Sylar himself. He has two days before the spell consumes him entirely. His only hope lies in the real magical gift he's spent a decade pretending he doesn't have—the same power that killed the woman he loved.

The con man has become the mark. And this time, the only way out is through.

"The Binding of Leaveaux House"

by John Waynick