'Sydney, Australia, 2021. Ghosts are everywhere and everyone can see them.Everyone, that is, except Sckel. Co-opted into the Apparitions Group, Sckel gropes his way through his early cases. He encounters underworld figures - both living and dead - befriends an eccentric inventor and his robot creation, and becomes entangled in the ghostly push to further open the fateway between the dead and the living. Part detective part, urban fantasy, part science fiction, this book depict a Sydney in the future where house price is the least of anyone's trouble.' (Publisher's blurb)