A haunted town. A forgotten ritual. A final candle that must never burn. The Thirteenth Candle is a supernatural thriller that blends psychic suspense, occult mystery, and high-stakes paranormal investigation into a dark, immersive experience where nothing behaves as it should-and where time, memory, and reality unravel with every step.
When The Circle, an elite psychic strike team, arrives in the abandoned town of Wyrmwood, they expect a routine occult disturbance. Instead, they find a dead village steeped in secrecy and held together by forces older than human history. The land pulses with residual energy. The buildings whisper with fractured memories. And buried beneath it all lies a ritual designed to bind something powerful-something that is beginning to wake.
In the heart of Wyrmwood sits a forgotten binding chamber containing twelve melted ceremonial candles...and an empty space where a thirteenth was meant to stand. As Charlotte Reigns, clairvoyant and mirror-walker, confronts reflections that show places she has never seen, and Sebastian Ryss, medium and ancestral reader, uncovers echoes that refuse to stay silent, the team is pulled deeper into a labyrinth of corrupted glyphs, unstable timelines, and psychic distortions.
Marin Vale's sigil-based technology strains to withstand an energy pattern it cannot fully decode. Ayla Khoury's elemental resonance exposes fractures beneath the ground where ancient forces move in the dark. Jaxson Dane follows psychic trails that loop back on themselves, bending chronology as if the town were remembering its own future.
Every clue points to the same chilling truth: someone is trying to complete the unfinished ritual by lighting the missing candle. If the thirteenth flame is ignited, the boundary between worlds will collapse-and Wyrmwood will become the entry point for something that should never cross into the living realm.
As illusions intensify and psychic traps tighten around them, The Circle must confront a threat capable of turning their own gifts against them. Together, they navigate a maze of occult history, generational secrets, and spiritual deception, inching toward a final confrontation where the cost of failure is catastrophic.
Atmospheric, gripping, and relentlessly immersive, The Thirteenth Candle delivers a cinematic fusion of paranormal suspense, team-based psychic warfare, and supernatural mystery. Fans of dark ritual thrillers, occult investigations, and psychic-powered fiction will be drawn into a narrative that escalates with every chapter and lingers long after the last page.
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David York, based in Houston, Texas - has always been fascinated by the realms of fantasy and the untapped power of the mind.
That lifelong curiosity inspired him to create an expansive universe centered on The Circle?a unique team of seventeen psychics, each gifted with extraordinary abilities. Blending supernatural intrigue with high-end technology, David's stories follow these characters as they confront mysteries, battle formidable antagonists, and protect the world from hidden threats.
With dozens of titles now available in print, eBook, and audiobook formats, David invites readers to step into a world of psychic suspense, thrilling missions, and unforgettable characters.
Thank you for reading?or listening. He hopes you find the journey as gripping and compelling as it was to create.