The first four chapters of Maddie Holliday Von Stark's forthcoming debut novel, The Widow's Game. A former FBI agent, her career ended by a protracted illness, Maddie seeks a peaceful new life in her small Wisconsin hometown as a teacher at a parochial high school. That peace is shattered by a series of bizarre murders which drag her down a deadly rabbit hole of witchcraft, deceit, child-abuse and a secret cabal of sexual sadists. Maddie soon finds herself in the killer's cross-hairs. To survive, she must rely on her wits, courage, fortitude and a little help from her invisible but all-too-present companion, a lethal, shark-toothed demon called Belial.