*The BookFest, First Place Award Winner in Gothic 2025 *Readers' Choice Book Awards Finalist 2024 "A powerful, timeless piece of dark fiction that is just as much a work of art as the artful content. Well-researched, written as top-notch, and deep character development. A beautifully haunting supernatural tale—factual magick, witchcraft, Arthurian legend, Celtic lore. A book that is unique and stands out loudly from the rest. Highly recommended."—Jon R. Meyers, The Horror Zine. Murder and Magick. Ghostly and Gothic. Mystery and Romance. As midnight strikes across Draakensky Windmill Estate, sketch artist Charlotte Knight arrives in Bedford, New York. The Heida Mead is found dead in the thrashing Mianus River on Draakensky. The Dark The ghost of Draakensky hurls its whispers, shivering into the wind. “Charlotte, welcome to my dark hours.” The Wind Jaa Morland, the lady of the estate, practices wind magick. Owl magick too. And even river magick. “Charlotte, my dear, can you sketch ghosts? Ghosts make sense of life, do they not?” Charlotte is a bright and inventive woman with an indomitable will. After a scathing romantic breakup in Chicago, she is hired to illustrate the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke under Jaa Morland’s direction. Finally, with this chance to boost her art career, and reboot her life, she relocates to Draakensky on the edge of the Mianus River. From the first night inside Draakensky's cottage, Charlotte discovers fearsome supernatural forces threatening to invade and spin her world into chaos. The ghost’s words flow loose and liquid, “Here I am, Charlotte, inside your space, just where you are.” The Celtic Charlotte finds refuge in Bedford’s Marc Sexton, a savvy mixologist, endowed with breath-catching eyes of blue, and impossibly sexy. She fails to resist his mysterious attraction or his knowledge about the Otherworld and insidious magickal realms. Marc wonders, “Does Charlotte sense the secret power of my nature? Draw me in, Charlotte. Be brave, my lovely.” Marc and Charlotte’s beguiling romance leads her into a piercing journey through dark magick, witchcraft, and the treacherous entities of the Otherworld. She must navigate the seductive nature of Draakensky Windmill Estate or succumb to unknown magickal realms and the dark forces that seek her. Charlotte will tell you this menacing reality, “Ghosts must live inside you to see them.” Magick dictates destiny. This is a Gothic thriller steeped in the supernatural and modern-day urban fantasy of magickal realms and realism. Fans of fiction like Deborah Harkness’ occult horror The Discovery of Witches, Karen Marie Moning’s urban fantasy The House at Watch Hill, Susan Hill’s ghost story Woman in Black, or Shirley Jackson’s Gothic mystery The Haunting of Hill House will find Draakensky goes a step deeper into the powerful Otherworld woven with folklore and myth. Catch the short video below to meet the haunted residents of Draakensky Windmill Estate. Paula Cappa is a multi-award-winning author of supernatural mystery novels_, Greylock, Night Sea Journey,_ and The Dazzling Darkness. Her novelette Sky Wolf—A Fairy Tale, The Wind Witch of Draakensky, and many short stories published in literary magazines are now available as ebook singles.