Closing Costs and Corpse Curses: Book 1

Legal Thriller - Corporate Satire - Cosmic Horror - Dark Comedy Arthur Howard is having a very bad year. His credit score is worthless. His career is barely alive. And thanks to a soul mortgage he foolishly co-signed with his former mentor, every missed commission payment now costs him a piece of his soul. In Manhattan, real estate is already a blood sport. But Arthur is about to discover that some properties are actually cursed, some clients are demons, and the fine print on a contract can be more powerful than any spell. Working alongside a hard-edged occult stager and a gargoyle escrow officer, Arthur must sell haunted penthouses, contain supernatural infestations, and survive an infernal foreclosure system that has no patience for late payments. His only chance to escape his debt leads him toward a hidden network of cursed properties beneath Manhattan—and a conspiracy engineered by the man who ruined his life. The deeper Arthur digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Because the city's most valuable real estate is part of something much bigger. And if Arthur cannot close the deal, Manhattan itself may be foreclosed. Closing Costs and Corpse Curses is a darkly comic urban fantasy packed with supernatural suspense, demonic contracts, occult real estate, corporate satire, cosmic horror, and a wildly inventive magic system where escrow law and legal fine print can mean the difference between survival and damnation.