The Black Covenant

Beschreibung
Six months ago, Mercy Hale and Patience walked out of Salem alive. They told themselves the nightmare was over. That whatever had been buried beneath old wood, stone, and blood had finally been left behind. They were wrong.When a maintenance worker is found dead behind a remote parish hall in New Hampshire, the scene carries a signature Mercy recognizes instantly: ash packed into the body, a scorched medallion marked with an ancient threshold symbol, and evidence of something old stirring beneath sacred ground. The fire that nearly consumed Salem did not die there. It spread. Quietly. Patiently. And someone has been preserving its path for generations.Drawn into the investigation alongside Detective Carruthers and social worker Dana Walker, Mercy and Patience uncover a buried network of families, church records, hidden sites, and inherited obligations tied to a secretive legacy known only in fragments as the Black Covenant. At the center of it stands Elias Harrow, a respected preservation scholar with a scholar's mind, a keeper's devotion, and knowledge that should never have survived.As old orchards, unconsecrated graves, ruined parish grounds, and forgotten archives begin to reveal the truth, Mercy realizes Salem was never the whole wound. It was only one opening in a chain of buried places stretching farther than anyone understood. And now the Covenant is no longer content to guard what lies beneath. It is preparing to open it.To stop what is coming, Mercy and Patience must follow the trail deeper into the history of the Covenant and the terrible inheritance it protects. But every answer comes with a cost, and every site they uncover proves the same horrifying truth: this evil was never random, never mindless, and never buried as deeply as they believed.Ash & Bone: The Black Covenant is a dark supernatural horror novel filled with cursed bloodlines, buried rituals, old church secrets, and a relentless sense of dread. It is a story of survival, inheritance, and the terrifying power of what families choose to keep alive in the dark.