Lost Wood is where people go to disappear – and that’s exactly what Sally Fallow needs to do. Having spent two years on the run from a murderous clan of vampires and their allies, soul-sucking “reapers” who destroyed her family and threaten her life, Sally comes to Lost Wood hoping to lay low and keep her secrets close. But what she finds when she gets there is a dark family history that links her fate to the dying town in ways she never could have imagined.
From the sultry barkeep of Old Wood Saloon, who carries her own secrets and, for Sally, an inexplicable allure; the stoic sheriff whose sole mission is to keep the town and its residents – magic and mortal – safe from all threats; the resentful, mortal son of a respected magical family who yearns for power; to the eleventh wife of the cruel man who holds the deed to the town, left to question her own sanity, LOST WOOD follows Sally and a group of townsfolk over the course of three fateful days in the titular town. The series of events that plays out when Sally comes to Lost Wood binds them all in a web of secrets and dark magic with high – and deadly – stakes.
The first book in a trilogy, LOST WOOD is a thrilling introduction to Sally Fallow and the generations-old dark legacy that becomes her destiny to undo.
LOST WOOD is a completed manuscript. Word count: 79,094.
E. R. Presma 