Gray Witch (Black Hat Bureau, #5)

by Hailey Edwards

“There will be floral sheets, busy wallpaper, and a musty smell that lingers long after you’ve gone.”

The latter held an elaborate shrine to Hecate, complete with a kneeling bench before her statue. Most witches, black arts or white craft, prayed for her blessings. She was the goddess of the night, of the moon, of ghosts, and of necromancy. That might sound grim, but she was also the goddess of witchcraft.

“We have the Boo Brothers,” he mulled it over, “who are an undefined variety of dead. We have an inn run by a white witch family. The parents are missing, and the kids are performing dark rites under the cover of LARPing. Their restaurant burned down. A familiar with it. And a teenage boy was kidnapped and killed behind their house.”