by Kay Hooper
Part of Bishop/Special Crimes Unit, book 19
First published 2020
Nellie Cavendish has spent eight years watching her world turn strange. Crows follow her everywhere. Electronics fail when she touches them. Storms break when her emotions run high. The nightmares that plague her sleep refuse explanation. At twenty-nine, she receives a letter from her father, dead for a decade, commanding her to travel to Salem before her thirtieth birthday and stop an unnamed evil. FBI Special Crimes Unit agent Grayson Sheridan arrives in Salem investigating Satanic activities and three missing strangers. His undercover partner has vanished without trace. The town appears peaceful, but Gray knows something lethal moves beneath the surface. When Nellie and Gray's paths cross in Salem, they discover the darkness hiding in this occult-shrouded place exceeds anything the SCU has faced. Nellie must uncover the truth about her origins while Gray races to solve disappearances that threaten to claim more victims. Both must survive forces that have waited years to surface.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, thriller, paranormal
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Salem
Period: contemporary
332 pages · Kindle Edition · Berkley
Content warnings: violence