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In The Pines by Mariah Stillbrook

Posted on November 17, 2023 By Jenna Rideout No Comments on In The Pines by Mariah Stillbrook

These witches have one month to end the spiritual threat to their bloodline. And not kill each other.

Welcome to one of the November 17th stops on the blog tour for In The Pines by Mariah Stillbrook with Bewitching Book Tours (schedule linked.) Follow the rest of the tour for more spotlights, reviews, author guest posts, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.

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About the Book

In The Pines
by Mariah Stillbrook

Published 14 November 2023
Creative James Media
Cover Artist: Triumph Covers

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Page Count: 374
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Two witches, two secrets, and a curse that could tear a family apart.

Olivia and Ellie have lived their lives knowing a dark entity is stalking their family, determined to kill them all. After the death of Olivia’s son, she abandons her magic and her family, leaving Ellie in a nightmare of heartbreak, her marriage crumbling and her sister gone.

Determined to save their mother Arianna from a spell that left her comatose, the two sisters must come together to unravel the riddle of the curse that has haunted their family for generations.

But as they delve into the past, the truth they uncover is more twisted and treacherous than they ever could have imagined. Will they be able to break the curse, or will it consume them all?

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Excerpt

The sound of the waves crashing down below, the impending fog rolling in, the wind sending curses past my cheeks, streaked with salt water—all of it seemed to have been put into slow motion as I stood there, full of rage and powerless against this demon as she held my daughter’s life in her tainted, dead hands. Eight words were all I was afforded in the two seconds that followed. “You were the one who let me in.”

And then it all happened at once. There was a “uttering of feathers, the sensation of a stick being forced into my hand, and the sound of my own screams as my daughter’s body fell; but then I just as quickly lunged forward, standing on air and pointing my bit of willow down at her body just before it was about to make contact with the jagged rocks below.

Maddie, now in possession of her own body, stared up at me with wide eyes and a gaping mouth as I floated over her like the witch I once was. And before she could utter a single word, before I could make out the laughter that seemed to be drifting back into the fog, I used my wand to lift her back up to the cliff and set her down before landing back on solid earth myself.

About the Author

Mariah Stillbrook, originally from Iowa, lives in Colorado with her white German shepherd, husband, and little girl. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She spends most of her days writing, reading, and enjoying the occasional hike. In her late twenties she realized that her writing was missing something, magic. She now focuses her writing on horror and urban fantasy in both adult and young adult genres.

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  1. Laura Thomas says:
    November 18, 2023 at 1:39 PM

    The synopsis and excerpt both have me curious.

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