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Daniel Carter, once a homicide detective, now lives quietly as a private investigator in Providence. After inheriting a bookstore from an unknown relative, he meets Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, who runs the shop. As unsettling deaths begin, Carter reluctantly suspects that Lovecraftβs stories hide more than fiction, forcing him to confront a supernatural menace rooted in the Great Old Ones and the elder gods. The case pulls him back into the danger he tried to leave behind.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Jonathan L. Howard
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