Book of Shadows Series

Alice Jacobs doesn’t believe in ghosts… until one steals her daughter. When her husband vanishes while investigating a string of strange happenings in 1780s Salem, Alice brings her young daughter Abigail to the fog-choked seaport in hopes of finding answers. But the townspeople live in fear. A century after the witch trials, they whisper that a woman unjustly hanged has returned from the grave. And she’s come for Salem’s children.

Abigail Jacobs has spent years hiding the truth: she’s an occultist who hunts the dead. By day she plays the part of a respectable schoolteacher in 1812 Boston. By night she drinks too much, swears too often, and does whatever it takes to silence the spirits that haunt her past.

Most mothers tell their children monsters aren’t real. Abigail Jacobs taught her daughter how to kill them. Anna Jacobs has spent her life hunting the dead at her mother’s side. Now she wants nothing more than to escape the bloodshed before violence consumes her the way it consumed Abigail. But when women begin vanishing from the lakeside town of Burlington, Vermont, Abigail pulls Anna back for one last mystery. What they find is worse than either imagined.

Still grieving the loss of her mother, seasoned occultist Anna Jacobs now hunts the dead alone. But when a message from beyond the grave whispers her name, she follows it to a remote abandoned village frozen in time and swallowed by the lingering traces of something unspeakable. There she discovers a family living in hiding—tormented, evasive, and guarding dark secrets of their own. Anna’s arrival stirs ancient forces better left buried, and she soon becomes entangled in a mystery far older and far more sinister than any she has faced before.