Coming Home

By Graylin Fox

After losing her husband and son in a car wreck, Lyn is left alone. Even though overwhelmed with grief, financial responsibilities bring her back to reality.

With the decision to sell her ancestral home, Lyn is greeted by memories of childhood as she meets up with the water dryad and brownie couple, who had helped her grandmother raise her.

The old plantation on the coastal marsh along the bayou of Louisiana reunites her with the joys she’d long forgotten—until she finds herself in the middle of a mysterious war.

Doors open and secrets are revealed, but will she be able to survive the nightmares she’d left behind as a child or walk away with more than she’d expected?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dark Fantasy Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781936394623

Graylin Fox

Graylin Fox is an Urban Fantasy author of Contessa: Princess of the Summer Fae, the Arcane Court Series (Death Dealer, Red Lady, Shadowed Vengeance, Demon Child), and the paranormal romance Candy Man Delivery Series which she writes as Graylin Rane. Graylin is also a psychologist, and used this knowledge when writing Smolder, a novel about a hospital psychologist, and Your Biggest Fan, about a woman obsessed with a boy band member. She still practices psychology in South Florida, unwinding with her friends at the beach.  Keep up with Graylin online at GraylinFox.com, on Facebook [GraylinFoxWrites], and on Twitter [@GraylinFox].

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Coming Home Copyright 2011 by Graylin Fox

ISBN: 978-1-936394-62-3

Cover art by Syneca Featherstone

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Chapter One

Weaving in and out of the trees as she did as a child, Lyn swayed to the drumbeat, feeling more than she heard. The rhythm of the marshlands pulsed as the sun set. Throbbing beats reaching around corners. She moved in a methodic rhythm she thought she’d forgotten.

Birds glided over the marsh waiting for curious fish to jump out of the water. Waves lapped against the rocks edging the property. Lyn spotted her small childhood raft, torn to bits by the changing tides, clinging desperately to the tattered remains of a once-proud rope.

Slowing to watch the golden light glisten in the trees, Lyn found herself humming a song learned at her grandmother’s knee. Her classmates had teased her about the songs. Until they too were taken in by the otherworldly look of Beann Fhionn.

Tonight's song was a hopeful lament. The estates fate hung in