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title: Seeking The Truth
description: Detective Erin Reynolds sees the impossible—and gets suspended for it. Teaming up with enigmatic occultist William Nightingale, she hunts a supernatural killer, uncovering dark forces… and an irresistible, dangerous attraction.
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Erin Reynolds has been on the police force for seven years. She’s seen some strange things in the line of duty, but nothing quite like this.

On her first day working as a detective, Erin witnesses something that makes the whole department question her sanity, and leads to her being sent on a leave of absence.

Desperate to prove what she saw was real, Erin tracks down the only other witness, Arcane Specialist William Nightingale. The occult expert is as infuriating as he is charming. When the killer leaves a disturbing message on her answering machine, Erin is forced to work with William to catch the culprit and get her job reinstated.

The hunt takes them around the city, visiting a flirty priestess, a druid on the wrong side of the law and a sorcerer from William’s past. As Erin learns more about the supernatural world, she also realises there’s more to William than just his sarcastic wit and arcane knowledge.

She's drawn to him almost as deeply as she is to the truth of what she saw. Her feelings for him are brought into sharp focus when William gets on the wrong side of the murderer, and it's up to Erin to rescue him and stop the occult forces plaguing the area before the darkness takes over.

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