No Humans Involved is the seventh book in the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. It is narrated by Jaime Vegas.
Synopsis[]
It's the most anticipated reality television event of the season: three spiritualists gathered together in one house to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. For celebrity medium Jaime Vegas, it is to be her swan song: one last publicity blast for a celebrity on the wrong side of 40. But unlike her colleagues, who are more show than substance, Jaime is the real thing.
Reluctant to upstage her fellow spiritualists, Jaime tries to suppress her talents, as she has done her entire life. But there is something lurking in the maze of gardens behind the house: a spirit without a voice. And it won't let go until somehow Jaime hears its terrible story. For the first time in her life, Jaime Vegas understands what humans mean when they say they are haunted. Distraught, Jaime looks to fellow supernatural Jeremy Danvers for help.
As the touches and whispers from the garden grow more frantic, Jaime and Jeremy embark on an investigation into a Los Angeles underworld of black magic and ritual sacrifice. When events culminate in a psychic showdown, Jaime must use the darkest power she has to defeat a shocking enemy: one whose malicious force comes from the last realm she expected.
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Plot[]
Characters[]
Recurring Characters[]
- Jaime Vegas - Celebrity necromancer
- Jeremy Danvers - Alpha of the North American Werewolf Pack
- Hope Adams - Half-demon, reporter
- Karl Marsten - Werewolf, member of the North American Werewolf Pack
- Eve Levine - ghost and employee of the Fates
- Kristof Nast - Eve's romantic partner; a ghost lawyer
- Paige Winterbourne - Recently opened Cortez-Winterbourne Investigations
- Lucas Cortez - Recently opened Cortez-Winterbourne Investigations
- Adam Vasic - recently graduated college. Working for Paige and Lucas.
- Savannah Levine - Seventeen and still deciding what to do after she graduates high school.
- Elena Michaels and Clayton Danvers - Pack werewolves. Stayed at Stonehaven with their sick kids, Logan and Katherine Danvers
- Cassandra DuCharme and Aaron Darnell (mentioned) - willing to give Jaime locks of their hair for necromancy work
Los Angeles Characters[]
- Angelique - a young spiritualist making her first TV debut.
- Bradford Grady - a famous British spiritualist
- Claudia Wilson, Grady's assistant
- Becky Cheung, director
- Todd Simon, producer
- Tansy Lane - dead starlet
- Gabrielle Langdon - dead starlet
- Rachel Skye - victim of the cult. Eleven years old.
- Aratron - eudemon who helps out Eve
- May Donovan - human. Supernatural debunker, lawyer, and cultist trying to create human magic
- Rona Grant and Zack Flynn - debunkers who work with May Donovan
- Don Rice - Cultist trying to harness human magic.
- Eric Botnick - Cultist trying to harness human magic. Also runs an S&M sex cult. Sacrificed by the others.
Others[]
- Natasha - immortality quester, killed in Industrial Magic
- Robert Vasic - half-demon and demonology expert, council contact
- Molly Crane - dark witch, contact of Savannah and Eve
- The Fates
- Esus, a Druid deity first encountered in Industrial Magic
- Dantalian - an imprisoned demon who Eve knows
- Molly O'Casey - Jaime's nan
Continuity[]
- Hope first told Jaime about the spiritualist television show in Broken
- Paige and Lucas acquired their new office building in The Case of El Chupacabra.
- Jaime helped Paige and Lucas deal with immortality questers like Natasha in Industrial Magic
- Jaime mentions flying out to help Jeremy Danvers and Elena Michaels in Broken, when a call probably would have sufficed
- Also mentions of the psycho rats Jaime encountered in Broken, and Clay's injury
- Hope met Karl at a buffet table in Chaotic, and he introduced her to the council.
- Eve first met Dantalian and Luther Ross in Haunted.
- Reference to Karl's involvement in the mutt uprising in Bitten
Publication[]
See also: Cover Gallery
Translated Editions[]
- French: Sacrifice
- German: Lockruf der Toten ("Call of the Dead")
Cover Gallery[]
- ↑ Jaime specifies November, and Kate & Logan are fourteen months old.