The Shock of Night: The Darkwater: Book 2

by Patrick W. Carr

Ten years ago, Willet Dura, the king's reeve walked out of the Darkwater Forest after spending days inside. An impossibility. Now, he's assigned to investigate the brutal attack of a Servant priest and his aide. When he discovers the priest still lives, he finds him on the edge of death at the house of passing. There, the priest, pulls Willet close and screams a single word in an ancient language. Willet picks up the threads of the his investigation, but as the clues lead him toward a shadowy group with the power to topple kings, he grapples with a seemingly impossible gift, the ability to see into another's mind. Willet must navigate his dangerous gift and the even more dangerous Vigil as he confronts a horrifying the keys to his mystery are bound up with the Darkwater, and what happened to him inside it.

540 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2025

About the author

Patrick Carr was born on an Air Force base in West Germany at the height of the cold war. He has been told this was not his fault. As an Air Force brat, he experienced a change in locale every three years until his father retired to Tennessee. Patrick saw more of the world on his own through a varied and somewhat eclectic education and work history. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 and has worked as a draftsman at a nuclear plant, did design work for the Air Force, worked for a printing company, and consulted as an engineer. Patrick’s day gig for the last eighteen years has been teaching high school math in Nashville, TN. He currently makes his home in Nashville with his wonderfully patient wife, Mary. Patrick and Mary have four sons who are living their own adventures all across the country. Patrick thinks writing about himself in the third person is kind of weird.