The Obsidian Curse

By Aiden James

More than a year has passed since shaman John Running Deer and his equally gifted granddaughter, Evelyn Sherman, battled Brigindo in Cherokee, North Carolina....

John and Evelyn prayed this would be it for dealing with violent ancient entities that supersede the normal realm of ghosts and other mischievous spirits. They naively equated the Hobbs family's return to peaceful lives in Colorado as the end of their own misadventures.

They couldn't have been more wrong.

When an ancient obsidian spearhead fused to fossilized fingerbones shows up at a brutal crime scene in western North Carolina, where six young adults have been horrifically slaughtered, John and Evelyn are soon pulled back into the dangerous realm they had hoped to avoid revisiting. But this time it is for an entity quite familiar to them-a long-feared demoness from their Cherokee heritage: Utlunta... better known as Spearfinger.

The relic is unwittingly reintroduced into Utlunta's ancient hunting grounds after a University of North Carolina professor brings it to John's home in Tennessee. Once Spearfinger regains a foothold into our world, a bloody campaign begins as the demoness seeks to reestablish her realm in the heart of Blount County where her famed tomb is located, and which is also home to the legendary Smoky Mountain mecca, Cades Cove.

Can John and Evelyn find a way to stop Untlunta's merciless bloody rampage before it's too late? Or, is this the menace that finally brings them and the rest of the world to their very knees?

The answers to those questions and so much more awaits discovery in The Obsidian Curse.

**IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the FINAL streamlined version of "The Obsidian Curse", and the subtle changes in this version are an effort to bring this story stylistically in line with the Cades Cove Series prequel, "Scarlet Hemlock" .

At present, "The Obsidian Curse" is available in paperback along with the Kindle ebook, and there is not a new hardcover or audio version at this time. Once a new audiobook version is completed and available (along with a possible new hard cover version), I will provide that update here.

All the best to each of you, my friends. I am forever grateful for your longstanding support of this series.

Aiden
(August 14th, 2026)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09MYVYBMH
• ISBN13: 9798778705494
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"