On A Dark & Crooked Path: A Dark & Crooked Tale Book I

Axel Vale, the mind behindTwisted Tales andThe CodeX: Continuum I – Emergence,invites you to take a seat and prepare yourself for A Dark & Crooked Tale.A new gothic trilogy of love, loss, inheritance, and the decisions we make when our backs are to the wall and there are no good choices left.There are no heroes here.No heroines.No fairy godmothers.Not everyone will survive.And nobody is coming to save the day.All bets are off when your pockets are empty, the chips are down, and you’ve played your final hand.So how do you pay the piper when he comes calling?Unless, of course, at seventeen…you inherit your family’s fortune.Surviving in a dynasty like the Matthews clan is hard enough. Making it to adulthood is a long shot. And now every warlock and witch in a sprawling, blood-bound network wants Robert “Bobby” Matthews dead.And that’s before he realises his family carries a curse.One that has just been passed on to him.Book One: On a Dark and Crooked PathWhen his formidable grandmother, Lady Margaret Matthews, dies under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Bobby inherits not only a vast fortune, but control of a powerful and deeply fractured dynasty.Thrust into a world of whispered alliances and razor-edged smiles, Bobby must navigate a web of ambition where loyalty is only ever a mask.Within the suffocating halls of Mourningford, a house that shifts, tightens, and watches, Bobby finds a single point of light: Sophie, the girl he never expected to see again. Her love offers hope. Perhaps even salvation.But the Matthews curse runs deep.Beneath Mourningford lies a rot three centuries in the making, now clawing its way back to the surface.For Bobby and Sophie, survival will demand more than love.It will demand sacrifice.It will demand truth.And it will change them forever.How far would you go for love?What would you sacrifice for the truth?Prepare to descend into a gothic fantasy unlike anything you’ve experienced before:an ancient dynasty,a family rotten to the core,and a secret buried for three hundred years… about to rise again.Once you set foot on a dark and crooked path, there is only one direction to travel.How far down you go…is up to you. Read more