In the backcountry of Yellowstone, wicked moves below the surface .

Following Nine of Stars comes the next chapter in Laura Bickle’s critically acclaimed Wildlands series.

As the daughter of the alchemist, Petra Dee has battled supernatural horrors and experienced astonishing miracles. But there’s no magic on earth that can beat her recent malignancy analysis, or help discover her missing hubby, Gabriel. Still, she’d wager all her staying days the fact that response to his disappearance is based on the about Witch Creek: A Wildlands Novel dark subterranean globe under the Rutherford Ranch over the outskirts of Temperance, Wyoming.

Gabe is being held prisoner with the sheriff and heir to the ranch, Owen Rutherford. Owen is set to harness the energy from the Tree of Life-and he needs Gabe to reveal its magic. Secretly, the sheriff in addition has produced a pact to free of charge a creature from the underground, a flesh-devouring mermaid. Muirenn provides vowed to exact vengeance on Gabe, who helped imprison her, but 1st . . . she’s starving. Once freed, she will swim into Yellowstone-to feed.

With her coyote sidekick Sig, Petra must descend into the underworld to save Gabe before it’s too late . . . for both of these.