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Prologues

Book 1: The smoking scene.
Book 2: A drug deal with some sort of magical element tacked on.
Book 3: Michael witnessing the aftermath of a shooting, eventually monologuing about how he'd be perfectly capable of saving the victim with his magic if it weren't for all of the witnesses present.
Book 4: Cornering someone on a subway train.

Book 6: Middle of an interrogation; leads to Salem chaining the victim to a motorcycle and taking him for a drag.

Main Plot Ideas

Book 1: In a story that introduces readers to Michael's world, Michael finds out about a local group of teenagers looking to summon a "god" through a group ritual. Things take a turn when he realizes that the person leading them is someone he's familiar with.
Book 2: Michael gets a call from his friend Ashley asking him to help her with something. Upon arriving at her apartment, he learns that she's being harassed by an old boyfriend-turned-stalker and wants him around for protection. Seems like an easy enough job, at least at first. But then he meets the man for himself, and realizes right away that his crazed, abnormal obsession isn't the only thing driving him anymore...
Book 3: Someone or something (it turns out to be a vengeful wraith) is killing junkies and drug dealers in Oakland. Michael has to find and stop this killer before it comes after him. Michael's knowledge of drugs, dealers, dope dens and how the Upstairs and Downstairs manipulate energy left behind by the dead are all expounded upon.
Book 4: Rumors have spread that one of the locals in Michael's neighborhood has started acting strangely. People in the neighborhood are convinced that he's on drugs, but Michael believes that something else is at play. At the end of this book, [spoiler] Michael realizes that there has been too much human-centric Downstairs activity in the city (along with far too many new people discovering the Downstairs in particular) for the events of the first four books to be a coincidence. Shortly after this revelation, one of the teenagers from Book 1 reappears and begs him to take her in.
4.5; Feast of Bones: A collection of short stories surrounding Michael and the supporting protagonists mentioned up to Book 4
-A Blameless Party:
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-Countless Hours:
-Hank's Spare Time:
-The Ruthless Stranger: Michael witnesses a child being kidnapped and decides to go after the people responsible. The story is told from the child's perspective.
-Perpetual High: Stan
-Reverse Entrapment: A flashback to the
-The Chevy Stash: A story of how Michael and Hank stumble across a red Chevrolet full of an enormous stash of drugs, and what they choose to do with it afterwards.
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Book 5 (The Monster in the Mirror): Soon after taking the girl in, Michael's residence is inhabited by a monster from "in-between", originating from one of the spaces between the levels of the Downstairs. Manifesting through each housemate's reflection, its presence forces Michael to figure out which between-space it comes from and neutralize it on its own plane of existence.
Book 6: Begins the "captive arc" where Michael is depowered and then captured.
Book 7: Continues that arc with Michael being held captive.

Non-Salem Yarns

-A man flees L.A. with multiple kilos of cocaine and ends up hiding out in an abandoned house in a small town in southern California. Things go south once he realizes he's not alone.
-A short story of how a 19 year old who's into the occult ends up being led into a coven by a mysterious stranger.