In The Pines by Mariah Stillbrook #ParanormalFantasy

In The PinesMariah Stillbrook
Genre: Paranormal FantasyPublisher: Creative James MediaDate of Publication: November 14, 2023ISBN: 978-1-956183-50-4Number of pages: 374Word Count: 110,334Cover Artist: Triumph Covers
Tagline: These witches have one month to end the spiritual threat to their bloodline. And not kill each other.
Book Description:
Two witches, two secrets, and a curse that could tear a family apart.
Olivia and Ellie have lived their lives knowing a dark entity is stalking their family, determined to kill them all. After the death of Olivia's son, she abandons her magic and her family, leaving Ellie in a nightmare of heartbreak, her marriage crumbling and her sister gone. 
Determined to save their mother Arianna from a spell that left her comatose, the two sisters must come together to unravel the riddle of the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
But as they delve into the past, the truth they uncover is more twisted and treacherous than they ever could have imagined. Will they be able to break the curse, or will it consume them all?
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Excerpt:

The sound of the waves crashing down below, the impendingfog rolling in, the wind sending curses past my cheeks, streaked with saltwater—all of it seemed to have been put into slow motion as I stood there, fullof rage and powerless against this demon as she held my daughter’s life in hertainted, dead hands. Eight words were all I was afforded in the two secondsthat followed. “You were the one who let me in.”

And then it all happened at once. There was a "utteringof feathers, the sensation of a stick being forced into my hand, and the soundof my own screams as my daughter’s body fell; but then I just as quickly lungedforward, standing on air and pointing my bit of willow down at her body justbefore it was about to make contact with the jagged rocks below.

Maddie,now in possession of her own body, stared up at me with wide eyes and a gapingmouth as I floated over her like the witch I once was. And before she couldutter a single word, before I could make out the laughter that seemed to bedrifting back into the fog, I used my wand to lift her back up to the cliff andset her down before landing back on solid earth myself.

About the Author:
Mariah Stillbrook, originally from Iowa, lives in Colorado with her white German shepherd, husband, and little girl. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She spends most of her days writing, reading, and enjoying the occasional hike. In her late twenties she realized that her writing was missing something, magic. She now focuses her writing on horror and urban fantasy in both adult and young adult genres.
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