THE DARK VILLAGE

Previously

…The locket felt lighter now, its significance shifting from a key to a burden he would forever carry. The mystery of his ancestor was solved, but the truth was far more terrible than he could have imagined. He walked away from the cursed village, forever changed, forever haunted by the secrets he had uncovered, and the choice he had made not to intervene. The fate of Blackwood, and the pact that bound its inhabitants, remained shrouded in the lingering mystery, a silent testament to the enduring power of ancient magic and the encroaching darkness that lay just beyond the veil. The road ahead was uncertain, but for Elias Thorne, it was a road he had to walk alone.