Sarah turns to witchcraft to console her grieving heart, and soon she discovers that the craft is all too real. But Sarah doesn't know that there are two sides to every coin, and in her innocence, she misses the signs that something very sinister is going on behind the scenes.Mommy told me something.Every kid should know.It's all about the devil.And I've learned to hate him so.Sarah is 15 with a kind heart and genuinely sweet disposition, and manages with a natural ease to be the "perfect child" that all other parents secretly compare their own children to. Sarah is definitely a product of her upbringing, as being raised in a loving home whose members all have their lives centered on worshiping the Lord and church life as a whole. Sarah, as a result, has lived an idyllic, picturesque life, free of pain, loss, and grief.As though feeling shock waves from the toppling of the Devil's domino set, Sarah soon has her life slammed upside down. The kickoff to her personal Death March thru the Valley of the Shadow of Death starts with the passing of her beloved grandmother. Confronted with the sad reality of Death for the very first time in her life, Sarah responds poorly. Unfortunately with each event, Sarah finds her thoughts turning dour, dim, and darker at all times, with there being but one specific target for her pain: God.Mad at the Lord for a perceived indifference to her plight, Sarah soon finds solace in something that she heard about in Sunday School, but only in the worst possible terms: witchcraft. Despite her anger at her faith, Sarah couldn't help but agree that everything her Sunday School teachers told her about witchcraft was entirely true- it's dangerous, it's dark, and it is a thing of pure evil.Sarah begins to use her new found power via witchcraft to help to start healing her broken heart, in addition to learning that her new faith has the power to give her any and all that she craves in life.However, caught up in the glitz and mysticism of her new power, Sarah forgot a key lesson from her church days: The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing you he didn't exist.www.rwkclark.com
