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

I tapped the photograph. “James Nihan Hindermost. The Eleventh Warlock in the Mali coven. The picture is from the 1970s.”


He hunched, looked closer at the black-and-white warlock group, chuckled, and admitted, “I haven’t seen that picture for the last twenty years.”


I closed the book and placed it aside. “So you do know him. How? Who is he?”


“My uncle as a young man. He’s dead now, of course. A bunch of common men ripped off his arms, legs, and head and burned him in a pile of rubbish near Brothshire Woods. Not that I blame them, since he wreaked havoc over Bitter, and other towns. Old men and women say that he was a serial killer of sorts, raping, sacrificing, and murdering boys, but written records will never admit such a horrifying label. The term serial killer didn’t exist then.”


Chapter 18