Witches and Demons

One year. One deal. One demon who’s been waiting longer than she’s been alive.

Book One of The Witch’s Castle Series

When Alessandra Caramon inherits a crumbling estate in rural New England, the deed comes with a warning, a grandmother she never knew, and a demon who’s been living in the kitchen for three hundred and sixty-five years.

Worrick isn’t polite about it. He tried to poison her on the first night. But Alessandra grew up in New York, has seen worse, and knows a negotiation when she sits across the table from one.

His offer: one year. She opens the gate that has kept him trapped in this world since 1659. In return, he’ll teach her what she is, tell her the truth about her family, and stop trying to kill her.

She accepts.

What her grandmother’s letter didn’t mention: the two ghost aunts in the walls, the spell that locked away twenty-eight years of memory, and the father she’s never met. Her father, who is a demon prince with twenty-five years of grief, and a corner table at a supernatural tavern where he’s been waiting every night since she was born. Or the resistance fighter who reads to her in the dark of a prison cell and leaves a second blanket without being asked. Or the founding compact buried in a demon-realm archive that says she — specifically her, the half-witch half-demon heir — might be the only person in two worlds who can change everything.

Alessandra has one year to learn a magic she was born carrying and never knew how to use. One year to open a gate that will send Worrick home.

One year to figure out why sending him home suddenly feels like the wrong ending.

The Witch’s Castle* is a slow-burn dark paranormal romance set in a cursed house with a sentient vine, two opinionated ghosts, one extremely particular demon cook, and a love story that takes its time, then doesn’t let go.