Death’s Door (Immortal Descendants: Baltimore Mysteries #1)

A master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time.

“Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have
long since gone my way into the region of shadows.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

The first time Alexandra “Ren” Reynolds meets Edgar Allan Poe is the night he walks into her underground bar — over 170 years after his mysterious death.

Ren has heard rumors of “Clockers” — the Descendants of Time who could travel through portals – but until she can find the one Poe accidentally used to reach 21st Century Baltimore, she’s stuck with him. And there is a problem: someone else has seen Poe and now they’re hunting for him. Not even Ren’s fledgling friendship with Officer Nick Pieretti will keep the vigilante away.

Hiding an arrogant anti-abolitionist in a secret room in her bar — once a station along the Underground Railroad — is oddly satisfying to the descendant of slaves. But Ren has much bigger secrets to conceal than the out-of-time presence of Edgar Allan Poe, and the events that transpire during their brief time together will alter both their destinies forever.