Witches and Demons: the House at Gate

Book One of The Witch's Castle SeriesThe house remembers.The ghosts interfere.And the demon in the kitchen has been waiting three hundred and sixty-five years to go home.When Alessandra Caramon inherits her family's crumbling estate in rural New England, she expects old furniture, unpaid taxes, and a few uncomfortable family secrets.Instead, she discovers a living house, two ghostly aunts bound to its walls, and a resident demon trapped in the kitchen by ancient witchcraft.Beneath the estate lies a sealed gate to another realm.And it is not meant to stay closed.For generations, Alessandra's witch ancestors made the same doomed pact: open the gate, send the demon home, and end the curse binding the house.And for generations, they failed.Each heir tried. Each heir died. And each one now lingers inside the walls, unable to leave what they tried-and failed-to finish.Alessandra is the last.The demon cannot kill her. She is the final bloodline key needed to open the gate. And for the first time in centuries, the house begins to believe the cycle might finally break.But opening the gate does not guarantee mercy on the other side.And the house remembers every betrayal it was ever asked to survive.

Pages: 649, Paperback, Independently published