Summoned: 1 (Redemption's Heir 1)

While browsing in a rare book store in Arkham Sean finds an occult book with an ad seeking an apprentice sorcerer from a newspaper dated March 21 1895. Even more intriguing the ad specifically requests applicants reply by email.. Seans always been interested in magic particularly the Lovecraftian dark mythology. Against his best friend Ednas (call-me-Eddy-or-else) advice he decides to answer the ad figuring its a clever hoax but hoping that it wont be. The advertiser Reverend Redemption Orne claims to be a master of the occult born more than 300 years ago. To prove his legitimacy Orne gives Sean instructions to summon a harmless but useful familiar-but Seans ceremony takes a dark turn and he instead accidentally beckons a bloodthirsty servant to the Cthulhu Mythos god Nyarlathotep. The ritual is preemptively broken and now Sean must find and bind the servitor before it grows too strong to contain. But strange things are already happening in the town of Arkham..... Welcome to the darker side of New England in the first of a new series from Anne Pillsworth.. Summoned is a fantastic debut...this YA gothic is infused with sly wit and occult tremors in equal measure. Finally a novel for readers who like their magic dangerous and their hexes irrevocable. -Sean Beaudoin author of The Infects and Wise Young Fool