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Gumbo Ghouls & Graveyard Whispers
(2027)(Book 19 in the Twisted Sisters' Midlife Maelstrom series)
A novel by Brenda Trim
The Six Twisted Sisters have battled more evil than the bayou has gators and lived to tell the tale of their Camino de Santiago adventure. A quiet magical antiques exchange should have been the easy one...
It wasn't.
Once a century, magical families across the region gather to trade heirlooms nobody fully understands, including cursed jewelry, haunted paintings, a grimoire that talks back, and a quilt that's outlived nine owners. The rules of the Exchange are simple: no one learns what an item does until every trade is done, and no one backs out.
And Willowberry is hosting for the first time ever.
Two nights in, an elderly woman's quilt vanishes from a sealed, warded vault with no sign of anyone breaking in. With a history of leaving its owners for hundreds of years, it's been quietly slipping from family to family right before tragedy strikes. And this time, it picked the worst possible week to run.
Dahlia's premonitions keep circling back to hot wax, old paper, and a name somebody tried very hard to erase. Danielle's psychometry drags up a debt centuries overdue. And Deandra, the only sister who can hear the dead, can't get Willowberry's ghosts to finish a sentence, and she's not about to push with Cami walking around as living proof of what happens when spirit work reaches too far. But when the graveyard finally answers back, it isn't just a voice that claws its way up out of the ground.
Spoiler alert: the Exchange's kindly old appraiser is the one behind it all.
With a closing ceremony bearing down and a covenant older than the city itself turning violent, the sisters have mere days to give the dead their rest, a second chance to a woman who never asked for one, and return what was never theirs to keep before something older than the Louisiana Purchase finally circles Willowberry's own front porch.
Cami's got gumbo on the stove, the dead won't stop whispering, and one woman is running out of borrowed time to fix what her family broke centuries ago.
Some heirlooms should stay lost.
Genre: Fantasy
It wasn't.
Once a century, magical families across the region gather to trade heirlooms nobody fully understands, including cursed jewelry, haunted paintings, a grimoire that talks back, and a quilt that's outlived nine owners. The rules of the Exchange are simple: no one learns what an item does until every trade is done, and no one backs out.
And Willowberry is hosting for the first time ever.
Two nights in, an elderly woman's quilt vanishes from a sealed, warded vault with no sign of anyone breaking in. With a history of leaving its owners for hundreds of years, it's been quietly slipping from family to family right before tragedy strikes. And this time, it picked the worst possible week to run.
Dahlia's premonitions keep circling back to hot wax, old paper, and a name somebody tried very hard to erase. Danielle's psychometry drags up a debt centuries overdue. And Deandra, the only sister who can hear the dead, can't get Willowberry's ghosts to finish a sentence, and she's not about to push with Cami walking around as living proof of what happens when spirit work reaches too far. But when the graveyard finally answers back, it isn't just a voice that claws its way up out of the ground.
Spoiler alert: the Exchange's kindly old appraiser is the one behind it all.
With a closing ceremony bearing down and a covenant older than the city itself turning violent, the sisters have mere days to give the dead their rest, a second chance to a woman who never asked for one, and return what was never theirs to keep before something older than the Louisiana Purchase finally circles Willowberry's own front porch.
Cami's got gumbo on the stove, the dead won't stop whispering, and one woman is running out of borrowed time to fix what her family broke centuries ago.
Some heirlooms should stay lost.
Genre: Fantasy
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