What the Hand Creates — Kat Barrett

Amathist Cross is a talented artist about to start art school. Joseph Steel has a playboy reputation. Ammie is leery of his past but desperately wants to believe that Joey loves her as he says. When Joey asks her to paint his favorite war game creatures on his bedroom walls, Ammie is honored. Ammie's alcoholic stepfather hates Joey and wants to control her life. He lusts after the trust fund that Ammie's father left her and is desperate for her to give up the money. When Ammie's best friend Lee makes a terrified call to Ammie asking her to get a protective spell book for her, Ammie's agrees. She is afraid for her friend, but knows that Lee's brother is into some very dark black magic. As events coincide, the danger is far greater than Ammie realizes, and it threatens to destroy her entire life.