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Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes, and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage.

Elizabeth was a practicing therapist, college professor, and single mother whose dysfunctional family dynamic only became worse after her mother died of cancer. But something very strange happened at the family ceremony to scatter her mother’s ashes, and Elizabeth’s life took a completely unexpected turn. When an attorney brought a mysterious package to her home, it set off a chain of events that challenged the very reality Elizabeth believed in, and led to the exposure of a secret her mother had kept since Elizabeth was born.

Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting for the faithful when they receive the sign of the cross in an effort to bring others to the church. But when 14-year-old Mary Western received the sign, something happened and she was suddenly seeing a series of grisly murders from the perspective of a violent killer. In desperation, Mary turned to the church, insistent she'd been possessed by a demon. Can a visiting priest at St. Michael's help save Mary's soul? In Angel Hill, nothing is certain.