Wicked is the Well

WICKED IS THE WELL

Book One in The Devil's Daughters Series

She came home to bury her mother.

She stayed to burn the whole damn town down.

Delilah "Lilah" Mercier hasn't set foot in Mercy's Hollow in eleven years - not since the night her sister walked into the Devil's Well and never came back. Not since the boy she loved chose silence over truth. Not since the water started whispering her name and she ran before it could finish.

Now her mother is dead. The estate is hers. And the Well is calling again.

Sheriff Boone Maddox has spent eleven years carrying a secret that's eating him alive. He was there the night Clementine Mercier drowned. He knows what lives in that water. And the moment Lilah's car crosses the parish line, the bond between them - the one he's spent a decade pretending doesn't exist - ignites like a match dropped in kerosene.

But Mercy's Hollow has darker problems than old lovers and older grudges. Bodies are surfacing across town, each one drained of something that shouldn't exist - magic. Someone is harvesting gifts from the living, filling a circle that hasn't been completed in a hundred and seventy years. And the thing sleeping at the bottom of the Well is waking up hungry.

The townspeople say the Mercier women are cursed.

They're wrong.

The Mercier women ARE the curse.

And Lilah is about to find out why.

In a town built on blood pacts and buried sins, where the founding families' darkest secret is carved into the stones of a well that remembers everything, Lilah must choose: run like she did before, or embrace the devastating, seductive, terrifying power singing in her veins - and risk becoming the thing this town has always feared.

Some debts are paid in blood.

Some bonds are forged in fire.

And some wells are deep enough to drown the whole damn town.

A dark, intoxicating Southern Gothic fantasy romance where ancient magic meets forbidden desire, and the price of power is written on the body of the man she loves.

For fans of: House of Salt and Sorrows × Serpent & Dove × The Vine Witch - with the heat of From Blood and Ash and the atmosphere of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

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