Takhian - Book 8 of The Darkwood Legacy

The prayers were answered. That was the point.

A barren woman conceived. A dying child recovered. A fisherman's nets came up full. For eight months the faithful came to the ancient log dredged from the Chao Phraya River, and the ancient log gave them what they asked for.

Grace Pritchard arrives in Ayutthaya, Thailand to find a congregation. Forty-three devoted worshippers. A monk being consumed in real time, grateful for every moment of it. A pregnant woman carrying something that doesn't belong to her child. Three dead — faces serene, hearts simply stopped at the moment of answered prayer.

The entity in the log has been feeding for centuries. It doesn't wear the face of a monster. It wears the face of something beloved. Something holy. Something people have been bringing their grief to for longer than the city above it has been a ruin.

Grace has hunted the fallen before. She has never hunted one that wanted her to pray.