Providence

<h3><strong>A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: in a handful of dust...</strong></h3><p>As the ancient war between the old gods of Earth and their bitter enemies rises toward a final confrontation Owen Merrill sets out from his new home in Arkham to Rhode Island seeking the ultimate weapon in that war: the spells that might succeed in calling Great Cthulhu from his temple-tomb in drowned R'lyeh to fulfill the terrible prophecy of the Weird of Hali.</p><p>The threads of evidence he and Jenny Chaudronnier have traced through years of hard work all lead to a young man named Charles Dexter Ward who lived in Providence a century earlier and may have received copies of the rituals from the elderly scholar George Gammell Angell.</p><p></p><p>As he plunges into the mysteries surrounding Ward and the rituals he finds himself entangled in a web of peril reaching far beyond the urban landscape of Providence.</p><p>The Starry Wisdom Church there is racked by rivalries no member will discuss and the Radiance and the Fellowship of the Yellow Sign are closing in.</p><p>Owen's one hope lies with a young woman named Hannah Ward-Charles Dexter Ward's great-granddaughter-who is in Providence on a mission of her own.</p><p>She has learned the same terrible secrets of alchemy her great-grandfather mastered and plans on using them to revive the one person on Earth who might know the location of the rituals Owen needs so badly: Charles Dexter Ward himself...</p>