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 should have known better, of course. When you feel the safest is when you become hurt. When life seems too splendorous, the rawness of pain becomes relevant and very near. When love occurs, which I felt for Harry Hindermost, hate was nearby, following and haunting.


Halloween night. The coldest night during that autumn season. It rained ice down from the heavens and caused the temperature to drop to thirty-two degrees. Wind kicked up and off the lake, blowing inland. Snow started to fall with the icy rain. Echoes of the once-dead swirled about Bitter’s city streets, deep and lethargic howling that spoke of pain and suffering. Bats escaped hell and flew around the chilly night. Vampires, wolfwomen, zombies, and evil scarecrows that protected pumpkin fields, ran, crept, and crawled throughout the middle-class neighborhoods, willed to cause destruction.


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