A little girl spins a hateful web.
On Halloween night, Nelly Huggett's mother chases her through the woods, screaming venom, knife in hand. Gillian isn't a nice woman, but this is different. She is different, strange, not herself. Nelly's father has been acting odd, too, and her brother...
So Nelly does what any other precocious ten-year-old would do--she calls supernatural investigators and sisters Hyla and Lizeth Frontenac, in the hopes they might find out what happened to her family.
But in the Huggett house, perched on the rugged Maine coast, the sisters discover that nothing is what it seems. Not the Huggetts and certainly not Nelly. Is she just spirited? Misunderstood? Or is she a liar, like everyone says?
She is a dangerous foe, this little girl, with a devious imagination and a dark secret. A dangerous foe whose deception just might ensnare the sisters forever.
A Note About Series Reading Order
This series can be read in or out of order. Each book covers a different supernatural case, and so can stand alone, however, the emotional arcs and personal lives of the two main characters evolve from book to book. Each book also refers to past cases, and these references could contain spoilers.
If reading in order, do it this way:
Case No. 1--Wicked Innocents
Case No. 2--Severed Souls
Case No. 3--Death Knell
Case No. 4--The Shadow Mind
Case No. 5--Black at Night
Case No. 6--The Only Constant, publishing in 2025
If you're starting this series with a book other than Case No. 1, please take a look at my Reading Out of Order Guide, which can be found at the back of each book in the series. This includes helpful summaries that will give you just enough background not to get lost. Please be aware that the summaries do contain minor spoilers.
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A B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree
Evil hides behind the sweetest faces. Even the face of a child.
A dark evil has infected the Huggett house. Hyla and Lizeth Frontenac can feel it. What form has the monster taken this time? A deranged mother? A secret crime? Or maybe it's a little girl, weaving a web of lies.
For ten-year-old Nelly Huggett has quite a story to tell. Maybe she's just precocious, imaginative, and misunderstood… Or maybe that glimmer in her eye is deceit and vengeance. Maybe she's the source of the powerful evil that consumed her entire family.
Wherever this evil comes from, it's dragging Hyla into the abyss faster than she can chase the clues. And she may lose herself before she can save anyone else.