Abstract This time, Harry Dresden and his assistant, the Hand of God Michael, will have to run around the city catching crazed ghosts, which have been very rampant lately. Soon the reason for the mass indignation of ghosts becomes clear - someone in the Nevernever envelops them with a specific spell, subjecting them to constant torment. Soon the same spell is used against the former policeman. And again, Dresden will have to unravel a tangle of strange events, while simultaneously (or is it still interconnected?) trying to stay alive at a reception hosted by the local vampire mistress.