Author: jeffchapman

“For the love of God, cut off my head.”The last request in Uncle Silas’s will shocks everyone speechless, everyone except his favorite niece, Anna. More than death itself, the claustrophobic Silas fears a premature burial. Will her elders carry out his request? Anna is certain they will not. It’s up to her to do the right thing, even if it is a bit grisly. Armed with butcher knife and candle, … candle, Anna heads for the crypt underneath the church in the dead of night. All does not proceed according to Anna’s careful planning. Graves have a way of not…

Plagues kill in more ways than one.Merliss is no ordinary cat. She’s far more. She’s a young girl’s spirit trapped in a cat’s body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her human speech, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now a bleeding sickness … bleeding sickness has thrown the community into chaos.The cunning man and his apprentice are in danger from the disease. The life Merliss has worked so long to build is in…