Maddy

She was the quiet one. The good girl. The best friend who never caused any trouble.

Until she touched a dying man's hand.

When seventeen-year-old Maddy Lawson discovers a burning truck on a deserted road, she doesn't hesitate. She runs to help the trapped driver, ignoring the smoke, the flames, the voice in her head telling her to run. She grabs his hand—and her world ends.

Something ancient passes into her. Something that has been killing for three hundred years.

Her best friend burns alive in the wreckage. Her parents watch their daughter become a stranger. And across upstate New York, predators who escaped justice begin dying in ways that mirror their crimes—all of them marked with the same five letters carved into their flesh.

KCAJ. Jack spelled backward.

FBI Special Agent Aniya Brown has hunted this demon for decades. She knows the signs. The silence. The empty eyes. The way a girl who should be grieving shows nothing at all. She knows that Maddy Lawson is no longer Maddy Lawson.

But knowing the truth and proving it are two different things. And when Aniya moves to bring her in, the girl vanishes into the night—leaving behind a trail of bodies and a family that doesn't recognize the daughter they've lost.

The Backward Jack: The Salem Curse Series:

Remember: You can say his name once. You can say it twice. But never say it three times. Because he's always listening. And he's always looking for a new friend.

About the Author:

W.G. Davis is the author of the Backward Jack: The Salem Curse series, blending historical horror with modern suspense to explore the monsters that live not in the shadows, but inside us all.

horror, supernatural thriller, psychological horror, suspense, dark fiction, paranormal suspense, crime thriller, historical horror, folk horror, gothic horror, serial killer fiction, occult fiction