Publisher's Synopsis
AN AWARD-WINNING WORK OF LITERARY FICTION!
--- SPR'S 2023 GOLD AWARD WINNER and 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR. --- READER VIEWS 2023-2024 REVIEWERS CHOICE GOLD AWARD for GENERAL FICTION/NOVEL. --- AWARDED FIRST PLACE in the 2023 PARANORMAL BOOK AWARDS for SUPERNATURAL FICTION in CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION (CIBAs). In this elegant work of literary fantasy, a young, 19th century attorney receives a strange birthday gift from his friend, Edgar Allan Poe, who convinces him to defend a woman and her two grown children who have been arrested for practicing witchcraft. The trial is to be held in an old Puritan town that has somehow "fallen out of time," and the verdict of the case will determine the fate of many more than just the three souls on trial. Navigating as a stranger in an even stranger land, he must piece together the truth of the most bizarre case of his career.