The Demonic Accord
(2026)(A book in the Sister Beatrice Investigates series)
A novel by Patti Petrone Miller
She lost her faith investigating a case she couldn't solve. Now the Church wants her to investigate cases that shouldn't exist.
Sister Beatrice Murphy was a detective. A good one. Until a case destroyed her faith in everything she believed about how the world worked. So she did what desperate people do. She ran. She found refuge in a convent. She tried to become someone new.
But the Church had other plans.
Assigned to investigate supernatural crimes that official law enforcement can't explain, Beatrice discovers that the things she thought were impossible are absolutely real. There's something hunting New York City. Something that feeds on blood. Something that has been killing for three hundred years. And something much darker is controlling it.
Beatrice has to stop it.
She's armed with blessed weapons and supported by a team that believes in her. She has prayer and community and the growing understanding that faith doesn't require certainty. But confronting something that exists partially outside human reality means accepting that she will never see the world the same way again. It means risking everything. It means standing in the darkness and refusing to look away.
It means finding purpose in the work that no one else is willing to do.
For readers who believe that faith is complicated, that doubt is human, and that sometimes the most courageous thing you can do is act despite being afraid.
Genre: Mystery
Sister Beatrice Murphy was a detective. A good one. Until a case destroyed her faith in everything she believed about how the world worked. So she did what desperate people do. She ran. She found refuge in a convent. She tried to become someone new.
But the Church had other plans.
Assigned to investigate supernatural crimes that official law enforcement can't explain, Beatrice discovers that the things she thought were impossible are absolutely real. There's something hunting New York City. Something that feeds on blood. Something that has been killing for three hundred years. And something much darker is controlling it.
Beatrice has to stop it.
She's armed with blessed weapons and supported by a team that believes in her. She has prayer and community and the growing understanding that faith doesn't require certainty. But confronting something that exists partially outside human reality means accepting that she will never see the world the same way again. It means risking everything. It means standing in the darkness and refusing to look away.
It means finding purpose in the work that no one else is willing to do.
For readers who believe that faith is complicated, that doubt is human, and that sometimes the most courageous thing you can do is act despite being afraid.
Genre: Mystery
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