Inkwell of Shadows
Book 1 of Moonlight Curiosity Mysteries
Newlywed, but not newly-dead. At least, not yet…
Daniel Hawthorne thought marrying his long-time fiancée, Cassidy—a shapeshifting bat-creature called a skinshaper—would be the hard part. Especially compared to quitting his workaholic job as a software engineer to run his late uncle’s antique shop in a quiet Southern town.
Sadly, not so much.
After a supernatural enemy crashes their wedding night with blood and fire, Daniel and Cassidy barely escape with their lives. The old storefront is smashed. Their honeymoon? Ruined. To rebuild, they’re forced to take a dubious job investigating a set of antique fountain pens. Ones with a long and deadly history in their wake.
Now they find themselves caught up in a century-old problem steeped in ink and blood. At the same time, a mysterious figure is also looking for the pens—and is willing to kill anyone to get them. Worse? It all might have ties to the monster that nearly murdered them.
To protect home, sanity, and each other, Daniel and Cassidy must uncover the truth—at least before their names are written in blood.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Till Death Almost Part
Chapter 5: Skullduggery and a Soft Reopening
Chapter 6: Dusty Decimal Systems
Chapter 7: A Safe And Other Lies
Chapter 8: Backyard Bodies & Other Ideas
Chapter 9: Murder Most Mummified
Moonlight Curiosity Mysteries and Curses by Darklight is a work of pure, unabashed fiction. To be honest, it’s a bit creepy, if not spooky, when is isn’t beside itself with nerves. It tends to be a little shy. Did I mention it likes to needlepoint because there’s lots of stabbing? Names of characters, places, events, organizations and locations are all creations of the author’s imagination for this fictitious setting. Which means, really, he gets all the blame.
Any resemblance to persons living, dead, undead, or why-aren’t-they-dead-YET is coincidental. The opinions expressed are those of the characters and should not be confused with the author’s, since the characters and the author tend to disagree a lot. Like daily.