Soul Eater: Maurepas | Charles Sayers

SHE'S COMING

MAUREPAS

SOUL EATER

A NOVEL

Some things in the swamp were never meant to be found.

Thirty years ago, Lucy Delacourte’s father disappeared in the Maurepas swamp. Now his badge has surfaced on an old Louisiana estate—alongside human remains, shattered porcelain dolls, and a little girl who hasn’t aged in more than a century.

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THE TRUTH HAS BEEN WAITING FOR LUCY.
AND IT'S HUNGRY.

Every drop of blood spilled, every promise broken, every lost soul thinking they could outrun what they've done. It's waiting.

For thirty years, Deputy Lucy Delacourte has searched for the truth about her father’s disappearance.It has cost her nearly everything.

Then workers draining a pond on the abandoned Duval estate uncover something buried beneath the black water: porcelain dolls, human remains—and her father’s badge.

The discovery should finally reopen the case. Instead, powerful people want the estate sealed, the evidence buried, and Lucy silenced.

Then she sees the girl.

Nine years old. Blonde. Barefoot. Watching from the edge of the swamp.

The same girl appears in photographs stretching back more than a century. She hasn’t aged. And wherever she goes, people disappear.

As Lucy follows the trail her father left behind, she uncovers generations of missing people, corrupted families, and a secret hidden deep in the Maurepas swamp. Something ancient has been feeding there for more than a hundred years, wearing the innocent face of a child and leaving porcelain behind.

Lucy has spent her entire life searching for what took her father.

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