49. Epilogue

49

Epilogue

T he spirit slipped up the stairs and into the small apartment. Roy lay curled in a ball. It approached him and sat down on the edge of the bed.

Roy glanced up, directly into the eyes of the spirit. He’d long ago stopped fearing the ghostly man he’d seen since childhood. “ They defeated the entity, but he isn’t the only one to be feared. ”

Roy sighed and nuzzled his head into his pillow. Shen had told him many things over the years. Mostly he’d talked about losing the man he loved more than any other, Andre Cordelia. Shen didn’t know how he himself had died, didn’t know why he was back in the world of the living, but he could see Andre. At least, he could lately. He just couldn’t reach him.

Shen looked over at Roy, who hadn’t responded, so, as he usually did when departing, Shen waved his hands over his head and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

As Roy had anticipated, the time had come for him to face his demons. He wasn’t sure how he knew, but somehow, someway, his fate had been tied to Cordelia Manor. When his employer had, out of the blue, asked him to begin working there, he’d known he couldn’t avoid Fate any longer.

Now, Shen had confirmed it. The evil entity that’d possessed the manor for as long as Shen could remember had been pushed aside, banished across the veil. It was time for the other spirits still trapped there to find their peace as well.

If you enjoyed Cordelia Manor, read more about the coastal witches in Adam J. Ridley’s Witch Brother’s Saga, starting with Emerald Earth.

After his father cursed him, Crea has faced decades of dead end relationships. Just as he’s almost given up hope he finds a handsome stranger broken on the side of a desolate road. Once he drops the stranger off at the hospital, he figures all is done. Nothing could be further from the truth. The stranger becomes so much more as he pursues Crea, threatening the curse. Crea learns quickly falling in love is easy, but surviving a nasty cantation that’s determined to destroy you, isn’t as much.

Eli isn’t a social person. His love for isolation in his beloved forest fully defines him. After breaking his leg in a mishap, Eli’s life is turned upside down as his life is filled with things he didn’t even dream of having before. Unfortunately, those dreams turn to nightmares as he and Crea, the man he’s become bonded to, battle a curse that should’ve never been cast.

Crea and Eli’s bonding must be strong enough to overcome the curse, or they could both be lost, forever.