Roanoke: The Price of Power
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Before the Roanoke colony became lost, it was found . . . by a man of dark ritual and even darker purpose.
It's 1589 and something is very wrong in the colony of Roanoke. When former magistrate's investigator Arnold Archard is asked by assistant governor Ananias Dare to look into an unexplained murder, he begins to unravel a mystery of blood and magic stretching back hundreds of years.
A supernatural horror from the world of American Arcanum!
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