Laura Moses

When fate takes a wrong turn an inexperienced clairvoyant is strapped in for a wild and deadly ride as the man she loves devolves into psychopathy, challenging her with the impossible task of setting destiny straight.

Enter the Mystic

Priscilla Nolan’s shop, Mystic Mermaids, is a twilight realm of tarot readings and past-life regressions. In steps Dax Burton. Tall, handsome, talented, and disturbed. Pupils dilated, he searches for her daughter, Piper. Scorpions skitter up Priscilla’s spine.

Piper Nolan is a promising clairvoyant. Raised in Nocuma Beach, California, amid seashells and sunshine, Piper is ill-prepared to recognize evil when it’s packaged so attractively. She dismisses her mama’s warnings about Dax. The man radiates charisma that sends her swooning. She is convinced they are bound by destiny.

Across town, sixteen-year-old Tess MacKinley is coping with an abusive father, beaten-down mother, and perpetual hunger pangs due to a fridge stocked to sustain alcoholics. She navigates her house like a shadow, trying to disappear from her father’s feral eyes, and at night slips into the darkness, using street smarts to survive.

The discovery of a hidden Polaroid picture leads Tess to Mystic Mermaids and Dax, who has overtaken Piper’s life with tyrannical glee.

To understand the darkness hiding behind Dax’s dazzling smile, Priscilla consults her staff of spirits from beyond, only to encounter a kaleidoscope of indecipherable clues. Tess holds the key to unlocking the mystery but refuses to help, shell-shocked from her own trauma.

Dax’s brutal behavior escalates, and Priscilla moves to banish him from their lives. Piper rushes to his defense and unwittingly subjects her mother to a devastating attack. Now Piper and Tess are left on their own with a madman, while Piper flounders to correct what she insists is an aberration of fate.

An Incomplete Death

A Novel by Laura Moses

Horror: Supernatural

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