Get ready for the biggest NEW publishing phenomena of 2007! So you wont keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. " Cross my heart & hope to die." " Okay then. Though you dont actually have a heart " she said. "I know." " And technically youve already died." "I know that too." " Just so were clear." Stephanies uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies & leaves her his estate Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasnt fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key Stephanie finds help from an unusual source
- the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard. When all hell breaks loose its lucky for Skulduggery that hes already dead. Though hes about to discover that being a skeleton doesnt stop you from being tortured if the torturer is determined enough. & if theres anything Skulduggery hates its torture... Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie & Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One things for sure: evil wont know whats hit it."