Bitter Sweets
Justine Sebastian
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· 1 ratings · 468 pages · Published: 26 Oct 2014
For six months, homicide detective Ethan Calhoun worked a serial murder case: six young women killed, stuffed and adorned with candy in a gruesome homage to the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. The police had no leads, the town was in a panic and Ethan was stuck with a front row seat to the carnage until a call from a witness offered him a possible break. He left to follow up on the tip... and never came back.
Everyone thinks that Ethan is dead, taken by the same monster he was hunting, but the truth is more horrible than anyone could have ever imagined. Trapped in a strange world inhabited by fairy tale creatures, Ethan fights to hang on even as he feels his grip on reality slipping away from him. Tortured, alone and on the brink of madness, he finds companionship from the most unlikely of creatures: the Big Bad Wolf. With the help of his only friend in this awful place, Ethan begins to hone a deadly part of his nature to a razor's edge that could either save or destroy him.
Left behind in the wake of his disappearance is his guilt-ridden brother, Justin. He is determined to find out what happened to his brother so he can put Ethan to rest even if he could not save his life. As Justin digs through the dust of Ethan's life, he realizes that the brother he thought he knew was only the tip of the iceberg and things he thought Ethan had long outgrown never truly went away.
Two brothers, each in their own hell, each whispering through the door, desperate to be heard, must fight to find the truth--both in themselves and in each other. The path through the darkest part of the forest is long and dangerous; without one another neither will survive the final confrontation.
Bitter Sweets is a horrific walk through an enchanted forest where "The End" never means the story is over; only that the nightmare has begun.
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- drama 2
- magic 2
- monsters/creatures 1
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