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Bayou Bones & Evil Thrones
(2026)(Book 18 in the Twisted Sisters' Midlife Maelstrom series)
A novel by Brenda Trim
The Six Twisted Sisters didn't survive this long by saying yes to things they didn't understand.
They said yes anyway.
One weekend. A cooking competition. Camera crews and string lights and tourists who'd never look close enough to see what lived in the shadows behind the charm. The plantation had played this role before—beautiful, composed, hiding its teeth—and the sisters were good at maintaining a mundane appearance. Probably too good.
Turns out they should've kept their heads down.
Something has been waiting in the bayou south of their property line since before New Orleans had cobblestones. Something long-suffering. Something that perseveres. After all, impatience is for things that haven't learned to fail well. This has failed a hundred times and still returned, sharpened by each defeat. Now there's a crack in the ward that held it out for nearly two centuries, and it's about to overcome that magical bond the way that water finds every weakness in old stone.
Then a vampire with knowledge that predates the nation appears like the swell of ocean waves in the hours before a hurricane.
She's not here with a warning. Warning implies time. She's here because the bloodlines connecting all nine lineages are waking up. And like it or not, if the Sisters can't hold the line, there won't be anything left worth protecting. Not the plantation. Not the city. Not the lights strung through the oaks that glow at dusk like something holy.
The competition finale is in three days.
And the ancient power yearning to break free isn't going to wait for the credits to roll.
Genre: Horror
They said yes anyway.
One weekend. A cooking competition. Camera crews and string lights and tourists who'd never look close enough to see what lived in the shadows behind the charm. The plantation had played this role before—beautiful, composed, hiding its teeth—and the sisters were good at maintaining a mundane appearance. Probably too good.
Turns out they should've kept their heads down.
Something has been waiting in the bayou south of their property line since before New Orleans had cobblestones. Something long-suffering. Something that perseveres. After all, impatience is for things that haven't learned to fail well. This has failed a hundred times and still returned, sharpened by each defeat. Now there's a crack in the ward that held it out for nearly two centuries, and it's about to overcome that magical bond the way that water finds every weakness in old stone.
Then a vampire with knowledge that predates the nation appears like the swell of ocean waves in the hours before a hurricane.
She's not here with a warning. Warning implies time. She's here because the bloodlines connecting all nine lineages are waking up. And like it or not, if the Sisters can't hold the line, there won't be anything left worth protecting. Not the plantation. Not the city. Not the lights strung through the oaks that glow at dusk like something holy.
The competition finale is in three days.
And the ancient power yearning to break free isn't going to wait for the credits to roll.
Genre: Horror