The Prophecy (The Eternal Being Series Book 1) by C. M. Deer

Author:C. M. Deer [Deer, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

14

Sleep was forever eluding Landry.

It wasn’t the mattress, or the housing situation, or even how useless he felt doing nothing all day. When he’d packed Josette up and left New Orleans, they’d spent days on a bus, stuck in a long line of traffic trying to leave the destroyed city. They’d slept on benches at the station or shoved against a window seat. After they reached Aunt Gemma’s, Landry felt a sense of purposelessness he’d never experienced before. If it weren’t for Gemma’s insistence that he get his GED and find a job, he would have floated through the city like an untethered ship.

But none of those things destroyed his sleep like being woken by the dead.

If he left the boundaries of the coven, they were harder to avoid.

Usually, the spirits that existed on this plane were harmless. They floated from place to place, sometimes watching, sometimes looking so vacant and confused he wondered if they were still cognizant. Some of the more insistent ones found Landry and asked for help. Coupled with the cases he solved as a PI he had a laundry list of deceased that knew how to find him.

In the coven it was a little harder. The spells that protected its inhabitants kept most things out. Outside of its walls, though, it was a free for all. He couldn’t go to the grocery store without being followed by a spirit of a woman whose killer he’d helped name, or a grandfather whose grandchildren he’d helped get closure.

This incessant dogging from the dead was new. He was used to the occasional spirit realizing he could see them. Now? It was his old client list, and they sought him out.

Mrs. Parkins was an elderly woman who first reached out to Landry during one of his dreams. Before he knew how to close his mind off at night, he’d find himself walking that in between world of the spirits. He’d wandered upon her over a decade ago and helped deliver a message to one of her grandchildren. It was about her jewelry, a specific item that was taken by a distant relative. She wanted it specifically for her grandson. Landry hunted it down for her. He never saw her again…until yesterday at the grocery.

He was sorting through the canned vegetables when he felt her touch, featherlight against his skin. It was just a gust of air, but Landry knew the sensation. He turned and was surprised to see her there. She was angry, her brow furrowed, her lips moving quickly as she spoke.

“He’s taken it,” she told him. “He’s taken my things, he’s moved them!” She was so frantic he didn’t understand what she meant, and it took coaxing her out of the store and into a quiet place for him to figure out what she meant. Someone broke into her mausoleum and stole pieces she’d been entombed with. He promised he’d follow up with the police if they weren’t aware they were missing.

That was just the beginning.

A series

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