In a mesmerizing urban fantasy, a reporter and a potion master—each outrunning the shadows of their pasts—join forces to stop a killer hex from devastating the bewitching city of Salem.

Investigative reporter Emma North is building a life in Salem, far away from the deadly secrets of her long-buried past. But when her latest story uncovers a terrifying hex—a malignant plague that transforms citizens into rampaging killers—she’ll have to face her greatest shame or risk losing everything she’s built. To fight the monsters of Salem, she turns to one man.

Logan Ford is the charming—if disgraced—grandson of the High Witch. Now Emma and her contacts in the Black Cat coven have persuaded him to redeem himself by concocting a potion to overpower the rabid spell. As wary as Logan and Emma are of each other at first, the attraction between them pulses like a heartbeat.

As the hex attacks escalate, Emma and Logan must team up to find the cure and end the horrors in Salem. Only together can they unmask the fiend behind this evil and confront the shadows that haunt them.

Vienna James is the author of The Nightmare Keeper. She has been a storyteller since a young age, when she would spend hours coming up with intricate lives for her dolls. When she is not lost in her world of stories, she can be found thrifting, starting a new hobby, or binge-watching her favorite TV shows for the hundredth time. She also writes contemporary romances under the pen name Cara Stout. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit www.viennajamesbooks.com.