DR MIRAGE SECOND LIVES (2015)

"In time, even the dead may die and, now, after multiple 2015 Harvey Award nominations, the most sought-after couple in comics returns with an all-new adventure from Eisner Award-nominated writer Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages) and acclaimed artist Roberto de la Torre (Daredevil)! Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever have until Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen have been reunited but Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead - incapable of opening a spellbook or even touching his wife. Their options exhausted, the death-defying Doctors Mirage are about to enact a dangerous spell to restore Hwen's solid form and grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror - and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alike a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next!"

"A lethal menace has been loosed on the world and everyone - alive or dead - is in harm's way! Shan Fong-Mirage is married to a ghost - the late Hwen Mirage, who she herself pulled back from the brink of eternal imprisonment in the underworld. But this team of paranormal investigators has discovered that even the unliving like Hwen can be killed and that their own research has unwittingly freed a malevolent spirit from a centuries-old enchantment. Now innocent victims - both among the living and dearly departed - are being massacred. To set this right, the Mirages need to unlock another copy of the ancient spell and only one other paranormal collector has it. And so now the good doctors must pay a house call to an old enemy "

"Shan Fong-Mirage thought she had solved the riddle of her ghostly husband... They thought the magic of an ancient scroll, the Secunda Vita, could restore Hwen Mirage's physical form. But the spells in the scroll are deadly and after spending decades trapped within its words, the malevolent and corrupted spirit of a long-dead sorcerer has been freed to wreak lethal havoc on Earth!"

"The living. The dead. The good. The wicked. And a husband and wife trapped in the middle, the only ones who might prevent them all from crashing together An evil spirit, dead for decades, has usurped all the power of the enchanted scroll that Shan and Hwen Mirage needed to save their lives together. Now they have no scroll, no power, and an unstoppable enemy with the power of death at its fingertips. As this specter of doom leaps from body to body, leaving extinction in his wake, the Mirages know the only way to defeat him win or lose, live or die is by making the ultimate sacrifice. Jen Van Meter and Roberto de la Torre deliver the dizzying, devastating climax for Valiant's Harvey Award-nominated adventurers and, for the living and the dead, nothing will ever be the same!"