If you like witches, werewolves, and murder, this is the book for you.
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About the Book
The Witch’s Debt
Coal Mountain Book One
by Edward Rollins
Published 1 October 2019
Cover Artist: Katherine Rollins
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Page Count: 392
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When the ghost of Jake Calhoun’s grandmother delivers a cryptic message to him, he’s drawn back to the mountains of southern West Virginia, where he finds himself on a collision course with the consequences of his past, the strained family ties that drove him to run, and the woman he left behind.
Though he longs to return to the life he’s made for himself in the city, a string of deaths forces him to decide who he will be, where he belongs, and how he will stop whoever is killing those closest to him.
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Excerpt
“You all right, Buck?” He set his coffee on the small table there as he took more of my weight than I intended.
“Yeah,” I lied. “Bit of a headache.” I couldn’t look him in the eye. “I need to check on something. Be right in.”
“Sure you’re gonna be all right?” Dad picked up his coffee as I took my weight again.
“I’ll live.” I nodded and started toward the sitting room. I steeled myself against the pain I knew was coming and pushed my senses into the Curtain once again.
The little room off the chapel was packed with overstuffed couches and an ottoman which could double for a bed. I could see just clearly enough to avoid tripping, but it made finding the cat a challenge. I moved from piece to piece, looking behind and under each. There was no sign of it. It could have left through the chapel but I wasn’t ready to accept that it had. It was bothersome enough it was inside the church. I didn’t want to consider what it would mean if the thing could move across the consecrated ground of the chapel.
“Lose something?” Bonnie asked from the doorway.
Frustrated and defeated, I gave her a weak smile and let go of my view into the Curtain.
“Hello, Bonnie.”
She stepped into the room, her coat and purse left behind somewhere. She wore a pained smile on her lips. “That the best you have for me?”
There were people in this town I didn’t care to spare a kind word, Bonnie wasn’t one of them. She’d done nothing but love me.
I stopped fighting the smile she had always put on my face and replied, “Well if it isn’t Bonnie Blankenship, the prettiest girl at Pineville High. How are things, Ms. Blankenship?” “Much better,” her smile touched her eyes and she stepped in close.
About the Author
As a kid in elementary school, Edward Rollins hated to read. Hated it…
Then his grandfather, who knew Edward loved the Adam West “Batman” series, introduced him to Batman comic books, the rest is nerd history. From those early comics he went on to consume a steady diet of books from fantasy to science fiction. Eventually, he found a little game called Dungeons and Dragons and a lifetime of telling stories was born.
He’s been a sailor, a soldier, a pastor, an engineer and a college professor; sometimes all at once. Mostly, he hopes to know what he wants to be when he grows up. Assuming he agrees to grow up…
A writer since college, he has published a handful of short stories and gaming industry pieces over the years. “The Witch’s Debt” is his first attempt at writing “something of his own”.
Edward has lectured in convention and collegiate circles on the topics of gaming simulations, fantasy world building and theology in fantasy settings. He is a fan of 1920s pulp and science fiction as well as the 1950s aesthetics of Raygun Gothic and Atom-Punk.
While he lives in central Ohio with his wife and two incredible young adults – all three of which make him proud — his heart will always be in West Virginia.
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