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The Inkwell of Shadows

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.

The story

Chapters

  1. Copyright
  2. Chapter 1: Till Death Almost Part
  3. Chapter 2: Briarwood Beatdown
  4. Chapter 3: Vows and Fangs
  5. Chapter 4: Echoes of the Past
  6. Chapter 5: Skullduggery and a Soft Reopening
  7. Chapter 6: Dusty Decimal Systems
  8. Chapter 7: A Safe And Other Lies
  9. Chapter 8: Backyard Bodies & Other Ideas
  10. Chapter 9: Murder Most Mummified
  11. Chapter 10: Mostly Murdered All Day
  12. Chapter 11: If Walls and Ink Could Talk…
  13. Chapter 12: Pies, Lies, and Other Appetites
  14. Chapter 13: Trust and Consequences
  15. Chapter 14: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
  16. Chapter 15: Whacking Weeds and Other Wild Hopes
  17. Chapter 16: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  18. Chapter 17: Professors, Problems, and a side of Peril
  19. Chapter 18: Death’s Own Trail
  20. Chapter 19: Rumors Of Root and Bone
  21. Chapter 20: Pages Better Left Unread
  22. Chapter 21: Roots Beneath the Floorboards
  23. Chapter 22: Dead Secrets Never Stay Buried
  24. Chapter 23: Ink Under the Fingernails
  25. Chapter 24: Stories That Refuse to Die
  26. Chapter 25: Chained by Evidence
  27. Chapter 26: Out on a Limb
  28. Chapter 27: Bait and Switch
  29. Chapter 28: Never Deal with a Dryad
  30. Chapter 29: The Final Draft

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