Repent in Dust and Ashes

Margaret returns to her dreary hometown for the funeral of her father, Rich O’Toole. Haunted by a childhood marked by emotional neglect and cruelty from her mother Sabrina and sister Estelle, Margaret reflects on the rare highlights in her life: her father’s quiet support and the mentorship of Beatrice Hodges, a young librarian who nurtured her intellect and fostered her interests in the occult.As Margaret reconnects with her past, she uncovers the full extent of her mother’s betrayal—Sabrina manipulated the legal system to ruin her father and send him to an early grave.Margaret’s grief and rage awaken a deeper power within her, one rooted in a mysterious book gifted by Beatrice on her eighteenth birthday. This ancient tome, Les trois révélations de Justine du Avignon, contains three life-altering incantations. Having already used two, Margaret prepares to invoke the third, her return becoming a reckoning—not just with her family’s sins, but with her own capacity to see justice for her father and the satisfaction that comes with retribution.