Bedford, New York. The invisible world is full of presences. Come with me on an adventure where we will see the visible edges that lead to the invisible forces residing in Bedford, New York.
Among the three hamlets of Bedford (Bedford Hills, Katonah, and Bedford Village), the most haunted is Bedford Village. Journey with me into Bedford’s landscape and embrace Draakensky Windmill Estate.
The windmill overlooks the famous Mianus River, revered for its quiet but mysterious character. Between the river full of shadows and the winging sky, you will find many thresholds. Great elms, maples, and yew trees stand like totems as they shed their seductive silence. Listen. Presence is not a thing but an atmospheric existence, textured and flowing with energy. Stay with me, so you don’t get lost between realms.
Something knowing here beckons sketch artist Charlotte Knight as she spends these next few months here, a voyager among the residents of Bedford Village. Too soon, she falls for Draakensky’s mesmerizing power and the cracks of the Otherworld realms.
On the surface, Bedford is like any other northeast American rural town. The three hamlets boast about 18,000 residents—Bedford Village hamlet has fewer than 2000. Quaint shops line the village streets: Bedford Free Library, bookshop, florist shop, and restaurants.
Most famous is Bedford’s equine society. This is picturesque horse country, world-class stables, lush green meadows, and paddocks with pristine white fences. Yet, Bedford’s horses are more than beauty, strength, and speed. There is a spirited female horse named Gramarra, an Irish thoroughbred crossbreed, who finds herself in a fierce confrontation with a pack of wolves.
Wolves in Bedford? Residents will tell you that there have been no reported wolf sightings for decades in this sleepy community. Yet, a dark magick lives here. Charlotte’s romance with Marc Sexton, the local and beloved restaurant owner of the Grackle Bar and Grill, takes an unexpected turn. He is a charismatic man who commands his business with quiet authority. She is drawn into his world of Celtic folklore, star magick, and something else.
Marc keeps a deep secret. A secret that Charlotte knows has something to do with the wolf pendant he wears around his neck. There are wolves on Draakensky, which Marc identifies as Black Wolf Realm, a force not to be trifled with. To even speak the name of these wolves could draw their power down upon them.
What is infinitely clear, a magickal destiny takes Charlotte and Marc on a dangerous adventure that could only happen in Bedford, New York, at the Draakensky Windmill Estate. Because, when you enter the presence of the Otherworld realms, you initiate wolf magick, river magick, romance too, and of course rip the darkness open and into the light.
Draakensky #2
Secret Mysteries of Draakensky
Black Wolf Realm rises on Draakensky.
Beneath this wild darkness, a haunted love quickens.
Beware of the shadowing.
Marc Sexton knows the wolves of Black Wolf Realm owe their souls to darkness. He resists wolf magick, a shapeshifting power he inherited from his father—a realm walker sworn to guard souls from the dreaded wolf realm.
Beware of shadow wolves, his father had warned on the day he died.
In Bedford, New York, Marc is the beloved restaurant owner, a charismatic man who commands his business with quiet authority. Yet, when shadow wolves stalk his nights, hunting him at his country house, his human strength struggles to protect him from the wolf that rises within.
The shift begins.
Marc defies the transformation into wolf, choosing instead a future with Charlotte Knight—his captivating enchantress, the woman he hopes will be his bride. But the wolf inside him will not be silenced.
Charlotte, a perceptive artist who illustrates poetry with uncanny insights, returns to Draakensky Windmill Estate—and to Marc. Drawn into his world of Celtic star magick, she senses there is a deeper secret he refuses to confess. Her own magickal powers as a daughter of Avalon offer no wisdom into Marc’s truth.
As Black Wolf Realm closes in, love and destiny erupt. The lovers are besieged with soul-hungry shadow wolves, triggering impossible choices. Surrendering to Black Wolf Realm may cost Marc everything—and the courageous woman who anchors his life.
Wolf Magick is a stand-alone Gothic, dark fantasy thriller set in the world of Draakensky, winner of the Gold Medal for Gothic at BookFest Book Awards. For readers of Deborah Harkness and Anne Rice, Wolf Magick is a tale of ancestral magick and love tested in the shadows of the Otherworld.
Suspense Gothic | Fantasy Dark [ Crystal Lake Publishing, On Sale: June 5, 2026, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781968532574 / ]
Paula Cappa is a multiple award-winning novelist and short story author of supernatural mysteries, Gothic thrillers, and dark fantasy. Her novel Draakensky, A Supernatural Tale of Magick and Romance (Crystal Lake Publishing) won the Gold Medal in Gothic at BookFest Book Awards. Other novels are The Dazzling Darkness, Night Sea Journey, and Greylock (Crispin Books), and the novelette Sky Wolf (Wolf Singer Publications). Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Coffin Bell Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, ParABnormal Magazine, Dark Gothic Resurrected, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, and many others.She is a member of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. Visit her Reading Fiction Blog at her website.
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