**PRE-ORDER** FRIEND by Jeffrey Howe

RELEASES 8/14/26

Getting murdered can really piss you off.

Invisible. Intangible. Amnesiac, apart from his final few moments of life. By most definitions, the entity who calls himself Friend no longer exists. Yet as he watches his own autopsy with disinterested curiosity, Friend discovers that for all he’s lost, he’s gained something too: a gnawing need to find his killer.

Oh, and the ability to possess people, whether to subtly affect their behavior, control them like puppets, or just go along for the ride. Even with such a mindbending power, Friend soon realizes he needs living allies, and recruits the detective working his “John Doe” homicide, the detective’s ex-partner, and the ex-partner’s psychic wife to help him uncover the truth.

But the truth is much bigger and much, much older than any of them could guess—because Friend’s not the only ghost with a grudge. And some of his peers have been nursing theirs for over four thousand years…