Stephen Penner

Blood Rite: a Maggie Devereaux Mystery (#2) Stephen Penner

PARANORMAL MYSTERY, SET IN THE BRITISH ISLES. The infant heir to the Clan MacLeod has been kidnapped. The local Scottish police think it's for ransom, but American student Maggie Devereaux knows better. Maggie discovered a book of dark magic, written in an ancient Gaelic that only she understands. But the kidnappers left behind a bloody phrase, scrawled in the same dialect. Maggie travels across Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and beyond to solve the mystery. In the end, she may have to tap into the dark magic to save the baby, damn the consequences... except that damnation may well be the consequence for Maggie.