Darkest Journey

Other Characters

Jonathan Moreau, Charlie’s father, historian and tour guide on the riverboat Journey

Emily Watson, café owner

Farrell Hickory, owner of Hickory Plantation and Civil War reenactor

Albion Corley, professor and Civil War reenactor

Nancy Camp, Charlie’s high school friend

Randall “Randy” Laurent, high school friend of Ethan’s, parish detective

Sherry Compton, high school friend

Terese, Ethan’s great-grandmother

Chance Morgan, photographer

On the Journey (Celtic American Lines Ship)

Timothy Banks, captain

Gerard “Gerry” Amerind, doctor

Haley Howell, nurse

Rebecca Jennings, nurse

Ricky Simpson, entertainment director

Contents

Cover (#u3845d692-e3b6-5a1d-9bf1-df9ba2bb1e69)

Back Cover Text (#u22481364-5a9d-56b7-855c-a883132d9992)

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Title Page (#ubcb61b50-9015-52f5-ba4c-6ba446fa6d47)

Dedication (#ua4ac396c-1d6b-556b-92cd-2e4a0d278bdd)

CAST OF CHARACTERS (#u7488756c-1cea-5e14-83c3-405086aeaef5)

Prologue (#u021fc5da-5af5-55a4-90c0-19a59862c204)

Chapter 1 (#u2b1b566d-33ec-5572-945c-680b534db880)

Chapter 2 (#u453d24b7-e24f-5496-b7cf-96450ef7a7b9)

Chapter 3 (#ud610c66d-0da0-55b8-b3a0-4206960ebaab)

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Prologue (#u0994b767-8e00-551e-b919-76733dbfa56f)

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

High School

“What are we doing?” Charlene—Charlie—Moreau demanded, surprised that both her escorts—senior girls high up in the hierarchy of one of their high school service clubs, the Cherubs—had suddenly taken hold of her arms. “Where are we going?”

She’d started out blindfolded in a car with five of her friends—all of them giggling girls ready to claim the prestige of being a Cherub. They’d been accepted into the club. They’d gone through ridiculous weeks of pledging—running, fetching, even doing homework for the “older sisters” in the club, and now it was their final night. Their great hazing. But the five of them had been split up about twenty minutes earlier; she’d been put in a car with Nancy Deauville and Sherry Compton, who’d gently led her out a little while later.

Now both girls were gripping her arms, nothing gentle about it.

Nancy Deauville laughed softly. “They say your mama’s family has the ‘sight.’ We’re just leaving you where you’ll have to ask some of your ghostly friends for help.”

“Come on! What are you going to do? Tie me up in the Grace Church graveyard?” Charlie asked, feeling her temper flare.