Asher Gale was a prodigy, but at 26 his painting career is dead. Now he's managing his crazy from a bar stool in the secretive So Cal arts colony of Skysill Beach, moonlighting as an art authenticator. In Skysill Beach, forgeries are everyone's problem, but it's all worse for Asher. He has ultraviolet eyes. And they're killing him.

When wealthy art dealer Waylon Goodman calls, Asher assumes it's to expose another forgery. But Waylon's daughter, Samantha, is dead. After Asher finds ultraviolet paint on Samantha's body where it should not be, her ultraviolet ghost begins to haunt him, and his investigation leads him deep into Skysill Beach where his own family tragedy is buried. There, while peeling peel back layers of avarice, violence and ancient ultraviolet magic, he stumbles onto murders, falls for a beautiful psychic, grows well-known to the police, and briefly becomes a ghost himself.

This is Book One of a five-book urban fantasy epic called THE HISTORY OF LIGHT. It is a story cycle turning on Asher's discovery that no human alive should see ghosts because 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.