Where the Sinners Pray (Gospels & Grimoires #2)

Prologue

Welcome to Willow Grove

A TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME

Willow Grove, Georgia isn’t on most maps. But if you drive far enough past the big-box churches and subdivisions, you’ll find it tucked between the pines: a place where gardens grow in the shape of hearts, where the dead don’t always stay buried, and where the Ward family has lived for generations.

THE STORY THUSFAR

Willow Rhodes came to town looking for quiet—but what she found was Rhett Ward: the eldest of five haunted brothers, the keeper of a crumbling house and a family curse that said no Ward man would ever keep what he loved.

Together, they unearthed the truth: a long-buried legacy of midwives and witches, of whispered magic and grief that bloomed in the soil. And somehow—between garden beds and ghost stories, first kisses and final reckonings—they broke the curse wide open.

Now they’re married, and they have a daughter, Hazel.

JUNE & SILAS

Before the wedding, a visiting seminarian named June Fontenot helped cleanse the house of the grief that clung to it—an exorcism in prayer, salt, and sunlight.

And Silas Ward, the quietest brother, gifted Willow the wedding dress his fiancée never got to wear.

During that wedding—or exorcism, or wexorcism, as the Wards called it—the young reverend and the brooding widower formed a connection.

They never talked about what passed between them. Not really.

But some ghosts don’t stay quiet forever…and June is about to find herself back in Willow Grove, this time with no way to ignore Silas Ward.