Into the Crimson Wood
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The voices began at night; trickling into Alastor’s mind as he lay awake listening to the sound of his father's drunken fury while he hid beneath the covers in his room. It had never crossed his mind until then to kill him; but when a gun is placed in his hands on one fateful hunting trip, the choice is made for him: One shot and blood on his hands for freedom.
Alastor and his mother can now finally turn a new page and leave the horror behind; but years later, when a robbery gone wrong ends with a body in the street, Alastor's bloodlust takes hold, marking the start of a bloody chapter in New Orleans' history led by the rise of it's most brutal and elusive serial killer yet.
Bodies begin to pile up, sending the city into states of terror that serve as stepping stones in Alastor's climb to the top as New Orleans' most popular radio host. By day, he is the voice that ensnares them over the airwaves with reports of the macabre, but by night, he's the one painting the streets in blood.
This newfound fame allows him to walk straight into the midst of the city's glamorous, sinful elite; but, just when he reaches the top, a murder he didn’t commit shatters his perfect game, and Alastor finds himself spiraling.
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- Part 1 of Into the Crimson Wood
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Finally on her long awaited tour that spans the country, Lucille’s fame begins to rapidly blossom under the hot glow of stage lights while Alastor continues to move in tandem through the shadows, continuing his work of making sure that with each stop, someone cruel disappears like smoke in the wind: quietly and without a trace.
But as misery loves company, trouble finds them when yet another unexpected death gets the authorities hot on their trail, threatening all that the pair has built for themselves. However, even as one crisis is avoided, it only bleeds into another once they return home as the person who had previously been threatening their life together from the shadows returns... And this time, no one is safe until they get what they want.
When the tragedy finally comes, brutal and senseless, this act of violence tears Lucille’s world apart, and with it, what’s left of Alastor’s fragile sanity. Grief opens the door for something ancient and vile, and as agony coils in his chest, he reaches for the only thing left that might give him control over the pain: the sweet promise of power, magic born of death, darkness, and the assurance of vengeance.
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- Part 2 of Into the Crimson Wood