When America's witches gather...who will live, and who will die?
August 1997.
In Paris, Princess Di, newly divorced from the heir to the British throne, is killed in a tragic auto accident.
Meanwhile, in Paganistan...
The Festival
...the local pagan community hosts the annual gathering of the nation's largest organization of Witches and Wiccans. But tensions run high...
The Ritual
...as the Ritual Committee plans a national first: a daring, and shocking, central ritual, the Dance of the Stags.
Two Stags clash in what appears to be a battle for dominance, but ends in a Great Rite. The Three Veils bless the Union as the Stags chase each other off into the words, naked and dripping cream.
The Players
The local council's First Officer, furious that, as she sees it, her beloved Goddess is being sidelined at her own festival, vows not to attend the ritual, while...
the First Stag finds himself increasingly unsure where ritual ends and reality begins, and...
the Young Stag struggles with an unexpected passion, as...
his Partner wrestles with anger at what she herself has helped to create.
Merrymeet 1997. Who will live...and who will die?
“...hottest ritual ever.” (Bruner Soderberg)
Murder at Merrymeet
Coming:
September 2023
Based on a true story