Grave Matters — Alexie Aaron

Necromancy refers to any and all divination practices that involve the spirits of people who have passed on ~ Orion Stavros.Someone has been disturbing graves across the Midwestern United States. Concerned about Big Bear Lake Cemetery, Andy Carmichael is ordered to check out each mausoleum. He doesn't return, and now his night watchman Darrell is also missing. Sheriff Braverman requests Mia and Murphy's help in finding the missing men. They arrive to find that someone has conjured a force field over the place, controlling the restless spirits within, and someone is trying to control Murphy.Darkness is consuming Angelo Michaels. He has kept it at bay for over thirty years with heroic acts and by fighting for the innocent of planet Earth. But the source of the darkness will not leave him. Mia determines that Angelo must return to Argentina to face what he did during the darkest day of his life, the day when he used his knowledge of necromancy to bring back his fiancée Gabriella Sandoval. But he isn't going alone. Mia and Gerald Shem travel with him with hopes that their combined knowledge and power will help Angelo free himself from the darkness for once and for all. There's one problem, Angelo doesn't want to be freed from Gabriella. Mia isn't going into this fight unprepared, but she's also going into it with two people who don't necessarily have her best interests at heart.If this wasn't enough to tax Mia, on the first day of school, Brian is called into the principal's office, Cristian takes over the art store, the twins boo Mia when they see her, and Varden wishes to visit Hell.Grave Matters is the 34th novel of the Haunted Series.