Malefica

"Can't you see...it's this town...there's something wrong with it. It's like a poison, and once it gets inside of you...you're gone...it takes all of the good, and twists and twists until there's nothing left. It's this town." Malefica, town of the dead. Malefica, Alabama.
Malefica is a battlefield made into a town. Before, it was a Native American plantation, turned into a battlefield. A portal opened by bloodshed, a beacon for the darkness. It attracts serial killers, criminals, and others- witches, monsters from all corners of the globe. Where America is the melting pot, Malefica is the boiling pot.
Max and her family were drawn there. Her father writes horror stories, and her mom works for the government, but she's not allowed to say what she does, precisely. Her work draws them there when the mayor, a prominent man in his early fifties, kills another man who got just a tad too close to the skeletons in his closet.
Max gets close to his son, a doe-eyed boy with a terrible secret that even he doesn't know.
The town is plunged into danger as a serial killer begins killing married women, hungry for blood and the taste of love he was never rewarded. His killing sprees closely mimic that of one of Max's father's characters, causing the books' popularity to grow, as well as the whispered conspiracies.
In the midst of all chaos, lurks a coven of witches, a mysterious woman all in white, and a twisted history that tangle like roots into the ground.
And Max learns that maybe not all things are as they first seem, and that people are complex, and layered, and maybe she's never really known anyone at all. Even herself.
Humans are capable of dark, inhuman deeds. Every monster is human.