Fitcher's Brides Fairy Tale Series Horror Book Review

1843 is the last year of the world, according to Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. Hes established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckylls Glen, where the faithful wait, work, and pray for the world to end.ernelia, Amy, and Catherine Charter are three young townswomen whose father falls under the Reverend Fitchers hypnotic sway. In their old house, where ghostly voices whisper from the walls, the girls are ruled by their stepmother, who is ruled by the fiery preacher in turn. Determined to spend Eternity as a married man, Fitcher casts his eye on Vernelia, and before long the two are wed. Living on the mans estate, separated from her family, its not long before Vern learns the extent of her husbands dark side. Its rumored that hes been married before, though what became of those wives she does not know. Perhaps the secret lies in the locked room at the very top of the housethe single room that the Reverend Fitcher has forbidden to her.Inspired by the classic fairy tales Bluebeard and The Fitcher Bird, this dark fantasy is set in New York States Burned-Over District, at its time of historic religious ferment. All three Charter sisters will play their part in the story of Fitchers Utopia: a story of faith gone wrong, and evil countered by one brave, true soul.