Detective Ethan Reeves is thrust into a terrifying
investigation when a series of brutal
ritualistic murders plague Daybridge, each victim
found progressively closer to the city's ancient bridge. As he uncovers the truth,
Ethan learns that Daybridge
Bridge is a living nexus point anchoring the gradual merger of realities, manipulated by a secretive
organization known as the Order of the Ebon Star through ritual and sacrifice. With his own hidden
lycanthropy and a mysterious
bloodline connection to the bridge's dark past,
Ethan finds himself at the center of a cosmic chess game, forced to confront
not only a killer but also the very nature of reality as the
veil between worlds grows thinner.
Daybridge Necropolis plunges readers into a dark
urban fantasy where Detective Ethan
Reeves, a werewolf bonded to a
dimensional nexus, and his perceptive partner Alice
Chen investigate a series of
bizarre deaths and grave desecrations in Daybridge
City. They soon discover these
horrors are orchestrated by Viktor
Kalishnikov, a powerful necromancer and Lila
Darkmagic's former lover and partner in a
botched ritual that tragically claimed Lila's sister years ago in Prague. As
Halloween approaches, thinning the veil between worlds, Viktor meticulously
works to establish a catastrophic, permanent dimensional breach by harvesting
life force from victims. Ethan, Alice, Lila, and a network of unlikely
allies—including occult bookseller Jake
Steinman, investigative journalist Nadia
Marsh, and veteran detective Mark
Simmons—must race against time to
stop Viktor's ritual and prevent Daybridge, a natural nexus point for
interdimensional activity, from being consumed by the darkness he seeks to
unleash.
Shadows of Vengeance: The Witch Queen's Return" is the third book in the Ethan Reeves Werewolf Detective Series, plunging Detective Ethan Reeves and his partner Alice Chen into a centuries-old mystery in the New England town of Daybridge. This seemingly quaint town, with its colonial heritage, conceals a dark history steeped in the 1692 Witch Trials, where twenty-three women were executed. Now, the vengeful Witch Queen, Cassandra Blackthorn, the last descendant of Salem's most powerful practitioner, has returned to Daybridge, seeking to exact retribution by resurrecting her coven and targeting the descendants of their accusers. Her ultimate goal is to break a powerful ancient seal beneath Daybridge, a town originally built as a prison over a threshold where the barriers between worlds grow thin, threatening to unleash something ancient and terrible if completed by Halloween. Joined by allies like Chronicler Nadia Marsh and the enigmatic witch Lila Darkmagic, Ethan and Alice must race against time to understand Daybridge's true history and prevent a catastrophe that could extend far beyond the town's borders.