Ashes Never Forgive

Returning home for his father's funeral, Elias Crowe witnesses a spectral blue flame rise from the coffin, visible only to him. This impossible phenomenon marks him with seven mysterious lines on his palm, six crossed out, one burning with an unknown power. His estranged sister, Ruth, sees nothing, but his cryptic grandmother, Mama Odessa, recognizes the terrifying truth: a family secret tied to the eerie Drowned Oak marsh and a warning from his dying father: "Don't let him light it." As the lines on his hand pulse with a hungry warmth, Elias is drawn into a world where the dead don't stay buried and ancient magic stirs beneath the mud. What dark inheritance has awakened within him, and what will it demand?

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