Warlock

Some faces are painted. Others are born.

After the fire beneath St. Dominic’s, Xavier Steele is still learning what it means to be the Warlock of Baltimore. The Gate was supposed to be closed. The nightmare was supposed to be over.

It isn’t.

When faces begin appearing in photographs, murals, mirrors, wounds, and old family records, Xavier discovers that the curse beneath Charm City is older — and more personal — than anyone told him. His father, Roman Steele, left behind more than secrets. He left a bloodline tied to the first stolen face, a broken Circle, and a final role Xavier was never meant to refuse.

As Detective Lenny Marks digs through Renee Miller’s unfinished files and Father Isaiah’s old lies begin to surface, a new witness enters the fight: Naomi Cross, a Baltimore documentarian whose mother vanished into the same occult machinery now hunting Xavier’s face.

Together, they uncover the truth of the First Face, the Hollow Gate, and the terrible purpose behind Xavier’s inheritance.

The Gate has learned his face.

Now it wants the world to remember it.

Warlock: The Thirteenth Face is Book 2 in the Charm City Chronicles, a dark urban fantasy series of haunted churches, ancestral magic, supernatural crime, and one broken man refusing to become the doorway others built him to be.