The third secret. Elliot K.

What could be worse and more inhuman than ritual killings? Or are they not ritual?..

the FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrik has his own secret shelter - a small house in the wilderness of Oregon forests. Here she can be herself and take a break from people and work. But once, with a cold winter night, her solitude scatters into dust. At the entrance to her refuge, Mercy meets a little girl who ran out of the thicket. She asks for help - her grandmother is bleeding. Mercy runs along with her through the forest, and there, in a hut among the trees, he discovers an old woman cut by a knife. The dying whispers spell in an incomprehensible language. Mercy recalls - this woman was called a witch in the district...