SEASON OF THE GOAT

Three hundred years ago, Allanna Goode was hanged as a witch in the isolated town of Appleton, New York. Betrayed by the very people she spent her life helping, she died with a prophecy on her lips: a promise that, one day, a lost daughter of her bloodline would return and awaken something ancient buried beneath the town’s roots.

Clarissa Good has spent her entire life running from nightmares. 

Haunted by vivid dreams of a monstrous, horned figure who stalks her through a twisted forest, Clarissa has survived an abusive childhood with a controlling mother through sheer stubbornness. When a letter arrives naming her the sole heir to a vast family estate in the small upstate town of Appleton, it feels like a miracle.

It isn’t.

The moment Clarissa arrives, strange things begin to happen. People watch her too closely. Secrets linger beneath the town’s charming colonial facade. Hooded figures gather in the woods beneath an impossible tree, waiting for her return. Appleton was founded on blood, betrayal, and buried truths. The descendants of witches and witch hunters have lived side-by-side for generations, preparing for a final reckoning foretold long ago. As Clarissa delves deeper into her family’s hidden legacy, she discovers that the nightmares pursuing her are not dreams at all.

They’re invitations.

Season of the Goat is a dark supernatural horror novel about inherited sins, forbidden faith, ancient witchcraft, and the terrifying cost of destiny.