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Woman of Shadows

The Lightborn Saga - Book 2

by Roger Mendoza

     Something changed the night five‑year‑old Alice Prescott’s fever broke from an illness that nearly stole her life. Her beloved stuffed bunny lay half‑burnt in her arms. That’s when it began—lights flickered, shadows moved when she didn’t, her toys whispered warnings only she could hear, and a strange light sizzled across her palms.
     A presence watched her, its hollow yellow eyes narrowing as if waiting for the moment she became what he needed her to be.
     Now, decades later, Mrs. Alice Prescott—powerful head of an international corporation—returns home after the sudden death of her son, Gregory Prescott. Grief sharpens old instincts, lightning hums beneath her palms, and she seeks revenge against the one person she’s certain caused his death: Catherine Whitlock.
     But Catherine, her mother Dorothy, and her son Tommy carry a brightness Mrs. Alice Prescott has never understood—one that stirs the shadows she embraced long ago.
     Woman of Shadows is a chilling supernatural psychological drama about innocence corrupted, power misunderstood, and the parasitic bond between a gifted child and the entity who shaped Mrs. Alice Prescott into the woman she became. It is the origin of her darkness—and the beginning of Silas Gentry’s hold on her soul and those of her family.