Nessa Hushwick is the third point in the Black Booth’s dangerous little triangle.

Vexxi Hexsmith handles curses, contracts, spirits, and soul-deep mistakes.

Rikka Gravejaw handles violence, tolls, debt, and the people who need to be convinced the hard way.

Nessa handles what comes after.

The dead.

The evidence.

The mourning.

The records.

The secrets.

The disappearances nobody wants attached to a name.

Publicly, she is a funeral parlor owner, undertaker, body-cleaner, and tender voice for grieving families. Privately, she is the woman people call when something has gone terribly wrong and must become quiet before sunrise.

Nessa is a blue goblin: composed, exacting, elegant, and patient enough to make silence feel like a locked room.

That is what makes her frightening.