The Skin Thief (The Praetorius Agency Files)

Agent Tessa Lancing believed she knew all about death – until she met Death itself.

"A cinematic paranormal adventure filled with ancient secrets, terrifying ghosts, and nail-biting action…" ~ The Prairies Book Review
"The author's writing style ... is exceptional. It captivated me from the opening line ... an entertaining paranormal thriller that will keep readers hooked until the end. With moments of suspense and romance, there is something in this gripping novel for everyone." ~ Literary Titan Review

Tessa has one last chance to prove herself to her employer, a disavowed secretive agency, or face literal termination, and she’s desperate to do what she must to succeed. When assigned to a doomed mission already littered with dead bodies, she drags Jack de Sombras, an accused traitor who’s also her old partner and unrequited love, out of his self-made tomb and back into the field. By teaming up with Jack, she expects to make quick work of the situation.

She’s wrong.

In addition to a mission gone sideways, they know they face potential assassins, a modern-day corrupt sheriff, and an ancient unspeakable terror. They are up against something more powerful than they could imagine and far more sadistic than they could have guessed.

With an ancient evil and Death itself after them, can they survive their last mission together?

The Skin Thief is an enthralling paranormal thriller set in the haunted canyons of Southwest Colorado. If you like ancient secrets, terrifying ghosts, and nail-biting action, then you’ll love T.E. MacArthur’s gripping novel of thrills, betrayal, and hopeless desires.

From the charmingly deranged mind of author T.E. MacArthur, creator of the steampunk Volcano Lady and Gaslight Adventures of Tom Turner series, and The Lou Tanner Mystery: A Place of Fog and Murder.

T.E. MacArthur is an award-winning author, artist, historian, amateur cat whisperer, and parapsychologist wannabe living in the San Francisco Bay Area with her cat and far too many books.

She has written for several specialized publications, anthologies, and was even an accidental sports reporter for Reuters News.

Her storytelling dramatically shifted direction to Retro-Futurism and Mysteries, as well as the Supernatural - one of many lifelong obsessions.  Her published works are now found in the Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Historical, and Paranormal subgenres of Mystery and Thrillers.

If you want to talk ghosts, Raymond Chandler slang, steam locomotives, and Elizabethan insults?  She's your girl.