A mass panic witch hunt soon follows and claims innocent livesโeven as real witches wreak massive havoc upon the town. Their malevolent tricks and malicious treats thrust Bakersfield once again into pure bloody chaos.ย
Meanwhile failed author Mark Davies, confronts something just as terrifying. Two years after his divorce, heโs finally jumping back into the dating game. Worse, his beautiful and mysterious co-worker Ellie Tarwater is the queen of the mixed signals. Sheโs also a practicing witch.ย
Mark is drawn into the strange world of the actual coven โBellโs Angels,โ devoted to the memory of the powerful witch Adaleen Bell, lynched by the citizens of Bakersfield during the Great Depression.ย
Wicked Adaleen has been buried for more than eighty years, burning with desire to exact her bloody vengeance upon the townโand the coven is planning to raise her from the grave.
This time, Bakersfield may not survive Halloween.
Christian H. Smith is a novelist and screenwriter living in the dark, corn-fed heart of the Midwest. New Salem is the third book in the โBloody Bakersfieldโ series, following The Black Monkey and Bloody Bloody Bakersfield. He is also co-writer of the upcoming feature-length horror film, Witch Child. http://witchchildmovie.com/ย