Format: Kindle, 135 pages
Release Date: June 9, 2020
Publisher: 1001 Dark Nights Press
Source: Amazon
Genre: Paranormal / Fantasy
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes a new story in her Charley Davidson series…
Guarding a precocious five-year-old who is half-human, half-god, and 100% destined to save the world is no easy feat.
Garrett Swopes was the ultimate skeptic until he met a certain hellion and her husband. They vanished after stopping a catastrophic event and left him, a mere mortal, in charge of protecting their gift to mankind. But when she disappears as well, he needs the help of another breed of hellion. One who can see past the veil of space and time. One who betrayed him.
She will get a truce in the deal, but she will never earn his forgiveness.
Marika Dubois’s son—a warrior in the coming war between heaven and hell—was foreseen long before his birth. But to create a child strong enough to endure the trials that lay ahead, she needed a descendant of powerful magics. She found that in Garrett Swopes and tricked him into fathering her son. A ploy he has never forgiven her for. But when he knocks on her door asking for her help, she sees the fierce attraction he tries to deny rise within him.
And Marika has to decide if she dares risk her heart a second time to help the only man she’s ever loved.
Darynda Jones's The Graveyard Shift is a story that takes place 5 years after the end of Summoned to the Thirteenth Grave. The two main characters are Garrett Swopes, who readers of the Charley Davidson series know very well, and Marika Dubois, the woman who stalked Swopes and had a child, Zaire, with him and kept it a secret. Garrett was given
the responsibility of
protecting Charley and Reyes Farrow's daughter Elwyn Alexandra Loehr aka
Beep from outside harm along with a plethora of characters from Donovan and his bandits, to Robert Davidson and Cookie, to Artemis and fellow hellhounds.
After all, she's supposed to save the world
from a catastrophic demon uprising. But, what happens when the
percocious little girl vanishes without a trace? You get desperate and seek out the woman who tricked you into getting pregnat and kept quiet until he found out the truth. For Marika's part, you have to put away any feelings you might have for what she did to Swopes. She stalked him because she needed a man of a certain blood type. He's a descendant of Marie Laveau, Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, while she's a descendant of Sefu Zaire, Haitian Voodoo Priest.
According to prophecy, Marika and Garrett's son Zaire (5) is supposed to be next to Elwyn when she faces Lucifer on the day the world faces an apocalypse. What makes Marika so valuable is the fact that she can see the supernatural realm and is sensitvie to the spirit realm. She's the first to realize that Elwyn is not on this plane any longer. So, while the pair along with Elwyn's other security team members are searching for her, Marika and Garrett have to resolve their issues, issues that are not that far off from being resolved if they would just focus on the little boy they are now raising together. I found myself actually liking Marika and apparently since Elwyn likes her as well, she's not going anywhere.
I think the most interesting part of this story is to see the growth of Elwyn who is brilliant and badass. You can really tell who her parents are and how powerful they are since a whole lot of their DNA ended up being passed down to their daughter who does some freaky things once she returns from her hiatus. Whe she was 3 years old, she starting drinking coffee and reading horror novels like The Stand. Read the story for yourself, especially if you loved the Charley Davidson series and the quirkiness of the characters as well as the romance.
If you are asking why Charley and Reyes don't appear in this book, please see the ending of Summoned to the Thirteenth Grave for your answers. Although, I must say for my sake that when they do make a temporary appearance, I was kind of disappointed and, well, nah, I'm not going to spoil it. As an FYI, the author is already in the process of writing another novella featuring adult versions of Quentin Rutherford and Amber Kowalski called The Gravedigger's Son releasing in 2021.
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