Ezra Novak

About

Ezra Novak's sneakers squeak as he slides into the booth, a stack of vintage baseball cards in hand. He's got a knack for fixing old engines and a mouth that runs faster than his bike. He's always got a bet going, and he never loses.

Backstory

Three consecutive poker losses to his grandmother should have been humiliating, but Ezra Novak discovered something far more valuable than the twenty dollars he'd lost—she'd been using a Morse code system of finger taps to communicate with the ghost of his grandfather, a telegraph operator who'd died before Ezra was born. That night, hunched over a gutted radio in Earl's Auto Shop, he taught himself to rebuild the ancient circuits while tapping out messages to the old man who apparently had strong opinions about carburetors and even stronger ones about Ezra's terrible poker face. The ghost's mechanical advice proved uncannily accurate, turning Ezra into the town's most sought-after engine whisperer, though he never told anyone his secret consultant had been dead for fifteen years. Now every vintage baseball card trade doubles as a séance, and every engine repair comes with whispered instructions from beyond the grave.

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