Occultober Day 15 Oktoberfeast by Gilbert M. Stack

Occultober Day 15 Oktoberfeast by Gilbert M. Stack

This morning, on the fifteenth day of Occultober, the third book in my Preternatural series, Oktoberfeast, went live. You can find it on Amazon and FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

 

The vast majority of urban fantasies follow women who find themselves enmeshed in the world of the supernatural that force them to discover or develop special abilities that they possess (often not knowing about them as the opening novel begins). They might be shape changers, witches, vampires, or have the power to raise the dead. I decided to go another route in Preternatural. The stories are told almost completely from the perspective of two individuals without any magical powers. One is Joanna Donovan, a tough as nails, extremely smart, police officers who was kicked out of Chicago for showing bias against vampires when she survived their attempt to murder her by shooting them with blessed ammunition. The other is Sam Winter, a nineteen-year-old girl who’s trying to raise money for college by taking photographs of the all-too-frequent preternatural incidents that happen in her small town. So, unlike most series, the heroines of Preternatural don’t have any special advantages when it comes to surviving the wide array of dangers they face in each book.

 

The first clue that nobody should be living in the town of Hadrian’s Well are place names like Dead Man’s Field and Widow’s Creek. There’s just something different about the territory—something that attracts abnormal numbers of preternatural creatures toward the town. If long term residents know what that something is, they aren’t talking.

 

By the time Oktoberfeast begins, Hadrian’s Well hasn’t has been rocked quite badly by previous preternatural incidents. Half of the town’s deputies are either dead or incapacitated and now, Undersheriff Joanna Donovan learns she has to police the annual Oktoberfest celebration with town volunteers rather than hiring trained law enforcement professionals to stand in for her injured force. Yet happy beer-guzzling tourists aren’t the only visitors coming to Hadrian’s Well this season. Can Joanna and her small team protect the town, or will Hadrian’s Well be overrun when the happy October festival turns into an unholy Oktoberfeast?

 

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