Chicago Underground Books 4-6
(2026)(A book in the Chicago Underground series)
An omnibus of novels by Daniel Pelfrey
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND: BOOKS 4–6
A Sofia Vega Urban Fantasy Boxed SetThe badge was supposed to make things easier. It just made her a target.
Detective Sofia Vega carries a Chicago PD shield and the Vega Fire Amulet, and lately she isn't sure which one puts her in more danger. Because the monsters she's hunting now aren't crawling out of the dark. They're sitting on the oversight committees. They're writing the checks. They're on the ballot.
BADGE & FLAME (Book Four)
Firefighters are dying across Chicago, drained hollow at ritual sites that trace a seven-pointed star over the city. The killer is one of their own—a burn survivor La Luna assessed, rejected, and forgot about, who has spent years harvesting the small magical gifts nobody thought worth protecting. He's building toward the Water Tower and a repeat of 1871. To stop him, Sofia has to testify to a magical Council that doesn't trust her, brief a police commissioner who can't be told the truth, and use blood magic that could cost her everything she's built.
COLD EMBERS (Book Five)
A forty-year-old murder pulls Sofia into the wreckage of her own family. Elena Vasquez died in Lincoln Park in 1983, and the men who killed her called themselves Purifiers—zealots who hunted anyone working to bridge the magical and mundane worlds. They were never defeated. They went legitimate. Now the practitioners are disappearing again, the same ritual signature is turning up in fresh crime scenes, and the conspiracy Sofia is chasing reaches straight through her own chain of command. Her grandmother has been keeping this secret for four decades. So has someone else.
BLOOD & BALLOTS (Book Six)
Three weeks before the mayoral election, a reformist councilwoman is murdered in a way that points at three different vampire houses. It's a frame, and it's working. Someone the houses cast out long ago has come back to burn down the Covenant that keeps vampires out of human politics—and he's willing to torch the Veil itself to do it. When a vampire attacks a candidate on a live-streamed debate stage, Chicago stops being able to look away. Sofia has hours to prove the truth in two justice systems at once, and the price of her only real evidence is a friend's life.
Three full-length novels. Institutional rot, buried history, and a city where the oldest powers just learned to file paperwork.
The Chicago Underground series continues. Perfect for readers of Jim Butcher, Ilona Andrews, and Benedict Jacka.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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