Ghosts of the Future

Jackson Jones has been ghosted. He’d been ghosted before, probably ghosted more people himself than he would care to admit, but this one was different. After his situationship Emanuel stopped returning his texts, Jackson never expected to be bequeathed his friend with benefits’ Eidolon, a deceased soul captured in a device the size of a smartphone.

Jackson is shocked that Emanuel a) had that kind of money and b) would leave his Eidolon for Jackson of all people, who could barely keep his eyes on his house keys and his wallet at the same time. Emanuel, his memories tampered with, also can’t answer those questions.

Jackson, with nothing better to do, and Emanuel, with little power to do anything other than occasionally shout from inside Jackson’s pocket, set off to chase down the clues to Emanuel’s death all over New York, all the while being stalked by a pernicious foe, someone who could strike fear into the hearts of the very bravest: Emanuel’s former boss.

Ghosts of the Future is an urban queer fantasy/sci-fi, a story about a world in which death has been digitized and commodified, and about two young people being pulled together across time and space.