In the near future, the living and the dead share the same space. Most ofthe "Blue Lights" are harmless, witless drones, as lost in death as they were inlife. Some want revenge. Some want power. Some even want company to join themin the ranks of the departed. Enter Alice Hotwire, Detective Exorcist. She's thebest there is at keeping the peace on the Blue Light beat, and her fellowofficers hate her for it. It's a job she doesn't want, in a world she doesn'tunderstand -- but when a break-in at the Maximum Security Necropolis setsoff a surge of violent, brutal hauntings, Alice Hotwire knows she's the only onethat can pull the city from the brink of chaos.