Waking the Dead — Kerry Blaisdell

Hyacinth always assumed dying would simplify her life. But when her new boss, Archangel Michael, sends her on her first official mission -- to retrieve a powerful rock from a collector in Germany -- things go downhill fast. For one thing, the Dead keep popping up, expecting her to guide them to the Afterlife. For another, her part-demon nephew Geordi's powers are starting to leak out, at age seven. What if Michael finds out about him? Worse, what if Satan does? Then there's her love life-after-death. Rooming with a dead French cop no one else can see is complicated enough. But when Jason, Geordi's lying Dioguardi Demon cousin, resurrects himself -- so to speak -- all Hell breaks loose. Literally. Can Hyacinth get Michael's rock back before Satan steals its powers and breaks free of his prison? Or will her single-minded pursuit put those she loves -- and the rest of the world -- in the path of Satan's fury?