Running for office has always been cutthroat. In Gloamington, it literally is.

When the city council candidates start dying one by one, Ella Bloom and Malcolm Fawkes discover something chilling: the ballot itself has been spelled. Every name printed on it is marked for death—and the killer is running out of victims.

With each new attack, the race to find the killer grows more desperate. Who in Gloamington would want to silence every voice vying for a seat at the table? And why?

But with the Unseelie Court closing in, Ella's biggest threat may not be the spelled ballot at all. Some races were never meant to be won.

The spelled ballot is only the beginning. If Ella can't outmaneuver both a murderer and the queen of the Unseelie Court, Gloamington won't need a new city council. It won't need anything at all . . .