The Devil Makes Three

A successful novelist who wants to do more than just write scary stories.A young widow who thinks there is no escape from a life she never imagined.A plantation house with dark secrets that infect every corner of a small South Carolina town.Will Jacob McGinnas’ dream house become a nightmare for him and everyone he cares about?In 1837, Briarwood Plantation was abandoned when Ezra Woodbine slaughtered his fianceé’s entire family. Now, after nearly two centuries, life returns to Briarwood. But for how long?Serena Decatur is a thirty-year-old Black woman trapped in a life she never asked for. Widowed, underemployed, drowning in debt, she is living with her in-laws in the small town where she grew up.Bestselling horror author Jacob McGinnas wants to dig into the secrets of Briarwood and write a new book, perhaps the literary masterwork that will etch his name in the lists of great authors.But as he enlists Serena’s help in bringing Briarwood back to life, they uncover a gruesome history of hatred and evil in Saxon County that extends far beyond the gates of the plantation and through time all the way to the present. Serena learns horrible truths about the town, her family, and their connection to Briarwood. Jacob’s writer’s block is shattered and he feels a bond with Briarwood and those who lived there. But is that bond imagined, or is it something real, something much darker?For there is a power long dormant on the grounds of Briarwood, and it seems to be stirring. When it wakes, will anything of the town survive?

About the Author

Inger Tudor is an award-winning actress working in film, television, and theater. She is a graduate of LAMDA and Harvard. Her recent credits include playing Rose McClendon in the feature film Voodoo Macbeth, M'Lynn in the national tour of Steel Magnolias (LA Theatre Works), astronomer Annie Cannon in Silent Sky (Arizona Theatre Company), the voice of Bree Stone, in the James Patterson audiobook Cross Over, and the voice of Serena in the Kimberla Lawson Roby audiobook Sister Friends Forever.Lucy Blue is a writer of horror, fantasy, and romance (and often some combination of all three). Her first professional fiction credit was as half of Anne Hathaway-Nayne, the partnership that wrote Forever Knight: These Our Revels, a tie-in novel for the late-90s TV show about a vampire homicide cop. She is a writer and lead editor for Falstaff Crush, the romance line from Falstaff Books. In between, she has published six horror/fantasy romances (as Lucy Blue and as Jayel Wylie) and self-published through her own micro-press, Little Red Hen Romance. She holds an MA in English from Winthrop University and is a 1981 graduate of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts.

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