‘He focused on the woman. Standing several feet away, she stared watchfully at him. Her bright red hair and clothing made him wonder why no one else seemed to see her.’
A deadly dog attack, a mutilated corpse, a heart attack and a robbery gone wrong. Nothing seems to link those four deaths, but Police Constable Luca Marshall detects a connection with a chilling revelation which throws him onto a path that leads into another world. A world hidden and inaccessible to humans, known only to its own kind: the children of magic.
Hunting a mysterious killer, Luca crosses paths with Sunna, an ageless witch who has her own agenda. She leads him deeper into the world of magic while battling new and old foes
They are joined by Lencho. A stranger to Luca, Lencho is the opposite for Sunna and threatens to unravel her past, which she buried long ago. At the same time, a raging war not only threatens the lives of all three and their hunt, but it also unearths Sunna’s past even more. Concurrently, Luca has to face his inner demons, while Lencho finds himself at a crossroads of decisions.
A race against time begins, while Luca, Sunna and Lencho try to stop a killer from striking again, end the war and protect both the worlds of humans and magic.
Update
After long consideration, I have accepted the advice of the professionals, who urged me to split my novel, Spellbound, into three parts to make it more marketable and printer-friendly.
While I will follow their recommendation, the full book will still be available on Amazon and through wholesalers (at a higher price).
To make it worth your while, I intend to offer Parts 2 and 3 at a discounted price.
On a positive note:
My decision allowed me to design more book covers. A task I enjoyed far more than I had thought.
Let me know what you think of my creations.
‘She did not care that one of her kind had killed a mortal, but she was bothered by it happening so close to her home, posing a threat to the life she had built.’
A deadly dog attack and a mutilated corpse. Two seemingly unrelated deaths catch Police Constable Luca Marshall's attention when he detects a connection with a chilling correlation. Driven by the need to prove his innocence and to understand what truly happened, he follows a mysterious path that throws him into another world. A world hidden and inaccessible to humans, only known to its own kind: the children of magic.
His hunt for the killer lets Luca cross paths with Sunna, an ageless witch who has her own agenda. However, events beyond their control keep their paths intertwined, and soon, Sunna finds herself back where she swore never to be again. At the side of another living being.
The two are joined by Lencho, who has far more in common with Luca than he would like. A stranger to him, Lencho is well-known to Sunna and threatens to unravel her past, bringing it closer than she likes.
Meanwhile, Luca needs to fight his own demons in the hunt for a killer. Or does he have to?
“Who talks about torture?” Sunna snapped. “Just cut off a finger or an ear. He’ll start talking once you exceed the number he’s willing to lose.”
Just when Luca has made peace with his inner ‘demon’ and thought the killer had moved on, two more lives are claimed in Cambridge. The seemingly unrelated murders, both disguised as unfortunate deaths, bring him, Sunna and
Lencho back on the hunt for a killer.
Their path spirals Luca even deeper into Sunna’s and Lencho’s world. Both, in different ways, offer him help to navigate the mysterious realm. It not only helps him to survive the dangers it poses, but also brings him closer to what lies hidden within him.
Once more, their investigation is upturned. This time, not only by Luca’s spiteful colleague but also by a woman from Lencho’s present and Sunna’s past. Simone, hateful of Lencho’s connection to Luca and fearful of Sunna’s influence, hatches a plan to rid herself of both. A plan that unfolds at the very moment when they try to save the life of the next victim.
What followed were three words that left her lips and drove ice darts into his heart.’
Riddled with guilt for almost killing Sunna, Luca does all he can to save his friends. His goal: Making amends and bringing justice to the victims of a murderer still at large.
After a trap doesn’t work, Luca, Sunna and Lencho are more than ever motivated to put an end to the killing. And finally, luck is on their side. Sunna manages to lure a vital fact from the killer, which puts the last puzzle piece into place. It allows them to discover the whereabouts of the monster. To win the upper hand, they sneak into the killer’s fortress, unprepared for what they find. While Sunna disrupts the slayer’s master plan, Luca and Lencho are caught in the crossfire.
The killer retaliates, and the hunters become the hunted. Grappling with the reality of the latest murder, Luca and Sunna prepare for the final fight. However, at this very moment, a soaring war, a conflict which Lencho tried to keep at bay and protect Luca from, reaches its climax and threatens to swallow them whole.
Having to stop a war and a killer, and save his and the world of magic, Luca is forced to make the ultimate choice. To sacrifice everything he holds dear or lose everything else.