Magdalene Smith (Mags, for short) has decided to tackle adulting in a new city so she can break free from a ghost-ridden past. Too many opportunities and career paths have been ruined, thanks to those semitransparent beings who lurked in her life. Now she's ready to work her way up the hotel management chain, having landed a job for the oldest beachfront hotel in Galveston, Texas.

Cal Barnesley has wanted to be a fireman and slide down those wicked poles since he was a kid, but taking written tests isn't his strong suit, and he's just failed the civic service exam—again. His father's abusive voice has haunted him all his life, saying Cal wouldn't amount to anything, but Cal intends to prove the old man wrong.

But when a lethal hurricane hits Galveston sooner than anyone predicted, Mags and Cal are thrown together into a web of survival, chaos and intrigue—they must solve a decades-old murder if they want to stay alive themselves.

Lethal Landfall is the fourth full-length book of The Southern Ghosts Series by Elaine Calloway.