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"A masterful detective tale...a must-read."  - KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

Asher Gale has ghost eyes. They see things that are bad for him. 

As a boy he was a prodigy. But his eyes gave him color seizures and forced him to stop painting forever. Now he's 26, managing his crazy from a bar stool in the secretive SoCal arts colony of Skysill Beach, moonlighting as a forgery investigator. Life is just a blur through Asher's ultraviolet eyes. Plus there's the vodka.

When wealthy art dealer Waylon Goodman calls, Asher hopes to expose another forgery, but instead he finds Waylon's daughter dead under mysterious circumstances. For Waylon's sake, he investigates the dead girl and finds ultraviolet Higher paint where it has no business - and then her motionless, ultraviolet ghost begins following him. His search for answers leads him back to Skysill Beach, to the mind bending world of Higher art he thought he'd given up forever, where he stumbles onto murders, falls for a beautiful psychic, becomes well-known to the police and, briefly, becomes a ghost himself.

This is Book One of a five-book urban fantasy series entitled The History of Light. It's a story cycle turning on Asher's discovery that no human alive should see ghosts - human beings no longer have ghosts. Millennia ago, unknown hands cut our ghosts away. Now those hands have returned, and taken up the blade again, in The Ghost with a Knife at her Throat.