Fetch (In the Pines Book One)

<p>Silas Crane believes in the magic of black coffee on a muggy morning the prophecies of crows and the monster under their bed.<br> Red flannel and graveyard dirt the lock of a dead boy's hair and an unspent silver bullet.<br>Uncle Micah's glasses.<br>A flask of war water and a vial of Ma's perfume.<br>The footprints of an enemy sprinkled with Hotfoot and whispered over at dawn.<br>Simple magics are always the best and Silas knows it.<br><br>The thing that's not a deer on the edge of town at night<br>The headless switchman who stops traffic<br>The rattle of bones when you sleep wrong way 'round<br>The shadow man under Silas' bed whispering to them in the dark about Danny missing and dead near ten years now...<br>Those take a harder sort of work than they're used to.<br>Especially when Silas finds themself drawn into Fetch's world following his whispering voice in the dark into the strange magics that create creatures like the shadow man under Silas' bed.<br><br><strong>Fetch</strong> is the first book in the <strong>In the Pines</strong> series. It is MX between a human and a shadow man from under their bed.<br> </p>