Sawyer Black is a professional fact-gatherer for best-selling, true crime author E.M. Rutt. He loves to travel all over the world to collect details concerning the bloodiest crimes. When E.M. sends Sawyer to Bitter, Pennsylvania, for six months to gather details of the mysterious disappearance of Jase Carmichael, Sawyer learns the peaceful lakeside town has a caldron full of very dark secrets.<br><br>With the help of sexy local pub owner Harry Tindermost, Sawyer uncovers the town's spells and the Mali, a warlock coven. He also discovers details of Wilhelm Ravenrock, the strange man who lives in the haunted Brothshire Woods. And he unearths the secrets of Jase Carmichael's disappearance, which may be connected to the Mali warlocks and the bizarre Ravenrock.<br><br>As the facts continue to build, Sawyer becomes Harry's attraction. Will he still be Harry's sexual interest after the dark secrets of Bitter are disclosed?

The 13th Warlock

Eventually Harry made his way back to me. Winked. Smiled. So pleasant all the time. Likable. “You alright?”


“The soup is stupendous. And the rye bread isn’t so bad.”


“Good to know. Melinda, my cousin, cook, sidekick, assistant manager, and all the other useful shit she does around here, makes both. She’s amazing. A fine woman. I’ll pass it on to her.”


I stopped eating, already feeling better. Because there were no patrons close to me, distanced from my left and right sides, I leaned over the bar and asked, “Harry, I have two uncivilized questions for you. May I ask them?”


Chapter 5