First time poster, got into the series sometime last year.

I figure Ghost Story was the best way to explain a raise in stakes for Harry. He's been growing in power steadily and at this point, given his own natural ability and the gifts of Mab, he would take out most of his own rogues gallery fairly easily.

Heck, even Murph got an upgrade of sorts, and his friends are a far more cohesive unit that they were before he died.

My question is, just how much are the stakes raised? I mean, he went from answering to the Council to answering to a HEAVY HITTER. As in, Mab walks into a fight and the fight is done...totally.

Don't know if Dresden is gonna use pre-existing myth as the framework for his next set of villains, or if he's gonna come up for something totally brutal and cruel on his own.