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Content levels
ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild
Trigger warnings
spiritual crisis
Positive tags
mysticalcharacter-drivenemotionally resonantseries starter
Tropes
Chosen Onespiritual awakeninghidden heritagementor relationship
Themes
Self-Discoveryspirituality and meaningdestiny and free will
Synopsis
When New York writer Joanna Elliott flees her abusive husband to the Texas Hill Country, she and her six-year old son, Jason, unwittingly become a killer's prey. Despite Realtor Tommy Joe Greenleaf's warning that Wanda and Ralph Spencer had mysteriously disappeared from the remote farmhouse ten years earlier, Joanna moves in and makes the sunroom her office. Joanna adopts a black cat from the local veterinarian, Sam Kelly, who tells her that Sabbath "had belonged to a witch.: Unexplained events unfold: Joanna is locked overnight inside the storage shed, footprints appear under the sunroom windows, and Jason's dog, Mournful, is found poisoned. What more can happen?