Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back 500 years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island-and the dark pact created by her ancestor, Ananias Dare. Though her dad has told Ellie of her heritage, and she knows she will one day turn into a Curse Keeper, she never dreamed how quickly that day would arrive…or how dear a sacrifice her grim duty will demand. After impulsively posting the truth about her destiny with her closest friend, Ellie doubts she’s summoned something dreadful, a thing that cannot be denied. But it’s her parents’ breakthrough of an eighteenth-century artifact-linked to the mystery from the vanished North Carolina settlers-that brings fear, and murder, into their once safe and happy house. Now, the unholy makes unleashed at the dawn of a fresh nation stir once more, to challenge another era fated to wage the war between gods of good and evil. A short story, This Adjustments Everything delves deeper into the globe of Ellie Lancaster and the Curse Keeper series!