Dead Man’s Hand: A Kayla Diaz Novel

By Tessa J. Holbrook

In Las Vegas, everybody's luck runs out eventually. Some people just make sure it happens to someone else.

Kayla Diaz has learned that working supernatural cases in Las Vegas means accepting one uncomfortable truth: the impossible usually has paperwork.

Her latest problem begins with a pattern that shouldn't exist. Bad luck is piling up around certain people with consequences far beyond coincidence, and the deeper Kayla digs, the more deliberate it looks.

At the center of it is Marco Cordoza, a man who has spent decades benefiting from a magical arrangement that pushes the cost of his good fortune onto innocent strangers.

Forty years of borrowed luck has created forty years of consequences.

And the bill is coming due.

To stop the damage, Kayla will have to unravel a working designed to survive its creator, determine where all that displaced misfortune has been going, and find a way to end it without unleashing decades of accumulated consequences on Las Vegas.

Because breaking a curse is one thing.

Figuring out who should pay for it is another.

Dead Man's Hand is a fast-moving urban fantasy mystery packed with dangerous magic, dry humor, supernatural complications, and the particular kind of trouble that could only happen in Las Vegas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHB2HY8R
• ISBN13: 9798170981526
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"