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The Hex Files
Book 2 in Moonvale
After a string of break-ins hits Main Street, Fern Calloway casts a protective ward on Calloway's Curiosities — and accidentally catches Sheriff Beau Tanner mid-patrol, his hand on the shop door at the exact moment she casts. The curse it leaves him with is a compulsion toward radical honesty: Beau can't bluff a suspect, can't hold strategic silence, and reflexively discloses things he'd normally keep to himself, including his own feelings. For a sheriff mid-investigation, this is close to disastrous. Sustained proximity to Fern is what keeps the compulsion's severity manageable — without her nearby, it worsens. That practical necessity pulls her into the case, and the two work it together: staged break-ins engineered by outside land speculator Roland Pike to scare Main Street owners into selling cheap. At the confrontation, Beau — still cursed — lays out the evidence with total, compelled honesty, and his sincerity is what makes Pike's scheme collapse. The choice to lean into the honesty rather than resist it is what breaks the curse.
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