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For Jerry Blanchard, a celebrity food critic who once said “food speaks to him like no other” finds out just how true that is. As he savors a sultana raisin, a sublime vision of a Sacramento vineyard is horrifically transformed by a woman’s brutal murder. And when his dying wife’s spirit appears and says, “Find her,” her statement is as much puzzlement as a directive.
Consumed by grief, guilt, and shame in the wake of Ginny’s death, he is haunted by visions of her as well as dark deeds by those who prepared the food. His appearance as a judge at the Monterey in the Morning Food & Wine festival descends into a mortifying spectacle as he reveals a litany of their long-forgotten crimes. His sanity is questioned and his past is cruelly dissected online. When others doubt his connection to reality, he sets out to answer the question and prove to himself that Ginny’s visits – and the woman’s murder – are not phantasms. Finding the truth takes on new urgency.
Jerry’s quest to confirm her murder becomes his sole lifeline back to sanity and finding redemption but he pulls on a thread that threatens to unravel one of the largest human trafficking rings in the US. When they set their sights on stopping him, they soon discover the most dangerous person in the world is someone with nothing left to lose.
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Shortly before Christmas Foster Kennicott is gruesomely murdered at an abandoned Civil War era house outside Fairborn, Ohio – once a storied station on the Underground Railroad. Chloe Messner, a travel nurse renting from Foster, is swept into the investigation as Chief of Detectives James Barlowe unravels the connections of his macabre slaying to her, a woman whose entry into Foster’s orbit isn’t as coincidental as she claims.
When Foster leaves a video for Chloe to carry on his mission with instructions for the Sisters of the Gathering to come to her defense in the event of his death, she sees the tendrils of a trap. As the investigation intensifies Chloe races against time to clear her name and escape the area. Her reluctance to become more involved with Foster’s plan quickly vanishes when she realizes she is marked for the same fate as Foster by something not of this realm. The trap is sprung. When Chloe hesitantly seeks refuge with the Sisters, they unveil a fantastical world of magic and sisterhood.
She discovers the truth about Foster’s secret from Mr. Poundell, a spirit guide – dead since 1917 – who haunts her dreams with the keys to her freedom bound up in solving a century old mystery steeped in Wiccan ritual, Cherokee lore, and a revenant creature birthed from another realm. When Chloe learns the horrifying truth of what happened in that house in the summer of 1867, she realizes Foster’s motivation and aims to finish what he started.
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