Then an elderly widow with ironclad self-control is filmed pocketing candy she hasn’t touched in years. A bank manager with a broken leg is found spray-painting the town war memorial miles from his hospital bed.
The evidence is clear: people in Ebony Peak are showing up in two places at once.
As the cases pile up, Greg’s tidy world of motives and alibis begins to unravel. A retired librarian whispers about guardians and a thinning veil between worlds. A real estate agent’s map points toward the old Victorian mansion on the hill and the sisters who live there — a family the town respects but knows little about.
To do his job, Greg will have to decide whether he believes in the impossible…
“The Rippling Shadow” is the mysterious prequel to the Witches of Ebony Peak series, a chilling “cozy-gothic” mystery where a methodical, skeptical investigator is forced to confront the limits of logic. If you like stories where the supernatural is a predatory force rather than a wonder, you’ll love this story of foreboding, souls, and what slips free when ancient prisons crack…