The Shamanic Tincture: The Recruitment of Anna Belle Grace
READING AGE 18+
Anna Belle Grace grew up invisible — a quiet girl from rural Alabama with a drunk mother, an abusive father, and nothing but the deep country woods to raise her right.But Anna has a secret in a mason jar at the back of the fridge.A tincture she brewed herself at fourteen from wild mushrooms and a native vine — a shamanic preparation so precisely calibrated it doesn't just alter her perception. It opens it. When Anna doses, she can feel people. Not their words. Their nature. What they're planning. What they're hunting.She calls it her mood medicine. The town calls her a witch.When she gets an emergency call to babysit five-year-old Lily Morrison alone in a house deep in the Alabama woods, Anna is already dosed. Good thing. Because the moment she walks through the door she feels him — a man hiding in the closet with an axe and a specific kind of darkness she has no name for but recognizes instantly.Anna gets Lily to the truck. Then she goes back inside.What happens next leaves nothing behind but ash.FBI Special Agent Cole Briggs arrives in Jasper County with a badge, a forensic chemistry degree, and a missing persons case that makes no sense. The suspect is a Waffle House waitress they're calling a witch. The victim was a violent predator with priors in three states. And the only evidence is an axe with Pickett's prints on it and a mason jar of something in Anna's fridge that Cole — who did his thesis on psilocybin pharmacology and has four personal field tests to his name — recognizes immediately.He should arrest her. Instead he takes her to dinner.What begins as an investigation becomes something neither of them expected: a partnership, a calling, and the discovery that Anna Bell Grace is not the only one. That people like her have always existed. That the plants have always known.And that the thing she carries in that jar is not making her dangerous.It's making her able to see what was already there.The Shamanic Tincture is a Southern Gothic supernatural thriller — raw, atmospheric, and relentlessly human. For readers who want their heroines forged in real fire, not born into power.
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Cole Briggs drove into Jasper County on a Tuesday morning in September with a go-bag in the back seat, a thermos of gas-station coffee, and the particular wariness of a man who has been in enough small towns to know what they think of him before he gets out of the car.
He was not from here, but he was from somewhere enough li……
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