A missing girl. A message branded into a tree. A mystery that cannot be ignored.

When ace reporter Chet Powder crawled out of the bottle long enough to nab a job in his hometown of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, he never expected to stumble on a world class scoop in his own backyard. When his childhood sweetheart goes missing and the bumbling authorities are unable to help her, Chet will be drawn into a strange world of magic and the macabre.

In "The Sacrifice," C. C. Blake spins a chilling tale of dark fantasy set in the modern world, where rites of blood can deliver devilish desires.