Waking the Witch

What happens when four boys confess to the murder of a woman who died a hundred years ago…?


The violent encounter Rowan Everly survived in college jolted awake her psychic power to see past images while holding a related object. At the behest of a friend, she comes to the privileged prep school town of Millburn, New York, to investigate the current rape and murder, and hopefully clear her friend’s son’s name. 


Rowan’s not sure she’s up to the task. Her deeply ingrained mistrust of men makes her question where her loyalties lie. The deeper she investigates, the less anything makes sense. The boys seem truly horrified by what happened—almost as if they hadn’t had control over it.


Her initial encounter with sheriff Toby Candusco isn’t pleasant for either of them. But his calm support of her, and his unwavering desire to see justice done, gives her the strength to not only face her fears, but to reexamine the core beliefs that shape who she is.


Only then can she face and destroy the real menace…and save everyone around her.


Bestselling author Dayle A. Dermatis has been hailed as “one of the best writers working today.” Under various pseudonyms (and sometimes with coauthors), she’s published several novels and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, including fantasy and SF, romance, mystery, thriller, and YA. She is a founding member of the Uncollected Anthology project.


Dayle eloped properly in Gretna Green, Scotland, rode off on the back of a motorcycle, and hasn’t looked back since except to smile and sigh happily. Unsurprisingly, she writes romances that are sometimes sweet, sometimes spicy, sometimes spooky, and sometimes funny, but will always make you smile and sigh happily. An unabashed romantic, she lives in a historic house with a wild and fae back garden, and whenever she can, she travels the world for inspiration and loses herself in music.


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