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Walnut Ridge - Book 9 of the Darkwood Legacy Series

R.D. PARRISH — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Happy to let everyone know that I'm hard at work on book 9 of 10 of the Darkwood Legacy Series.

This one finds Grace and team on home ground at the farm in North Carolina where the Garden is. It's been a year since her and Marcus came back from Thailand to take a rest. But I am pretty sure that is about to change since "something" has turned its attention to her. This time she's the hunted.

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TAKHIAN - Book 8 of the Darkwood Legacy

R.D. PARRISH — Thu, 7 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Not everything that is worshipped is holy.

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.

Watch for the world wide release 2026 this May. And if you've not started this series, you need to catch up!

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Darkwood Legacy Book 8 - TAKHIAN

R.D. PARRISH — Sun, 5 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When the prayers start coming true, the dying begins.

A sacred log dredged from Thailand’s Chao Phraya River has become the heart of a miracle shrine — silk‑wrapped, incense‑lit, and adored by thousands. Lottery winners, healed children, answered prayers. But beneath the temple’s golden light, something ancient is feeding. It doesn’t bless. It consumes.

Grace Pritchard, the Oracle, and Marcus Webb arrive in Ayutthaya to investigate what looks like salvation and feels like worship. What they find is something wearing the face of a goddess — a predator wearing the skin of light, not shadow. Every prayer strengthens it. Every believer brings it closer to Grace.

From the haunted soil of Appalachia to the river temples of Thailand, TAKHIAN continues The Darkwood Legacy with a story of devotion turned deadly, faith twisted into hunger, and an Oracle hunted by the very thing that calls itself holy.

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Just Released!

R.D. PARRISH — Sun, 5 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The swamp was supposed to be the sanctuary.

It was for everyone who came before — the freedom seekers, the hunted, the desperate. Generations of the lost had vanished into the Great Dismal Swamp and lived. The water hid them. The roots held them. The dark kept them safe.

That was before it found the roots.

Grace Pritchard has faced what lives beneath the earth before. She knows how entities move, how they feed, how they wait. She knows the rules. But the thing distributed through miles of black willow and dark water has been here since before any rule she knows was written. It doesn't inhabit a place. It is the place. Every tree. Every root. Every whisper beneath the surface of the water.

And it has been waiting for her specifically.

When Grace and her team enter the swamp in early spring — the willows bare, the catkins drifting like pale ash, the muttering already rising at the edge of hearing — they believe they are hunting. They are not. By the time they understand the difference, one of their own is gone, the maps have stopped making sense, and the only guides left are the voices of the dead. The same dead that have been trapped here for centuries.

The people the swamp was supposed to save.

Saileach Dubh — pronounced "SAL-akh Doo" — is the seventh book in R.D. Parrish's Darkwood Legacy series. It is a horror novel about a living trap that has been closing for two hundred years, a team that may have finally found the one thing they cannot outlast, and a woman whose power has been building toward something none of them fully understand.

The branch was floating upstream when they arrived.

They kept paddling anyway.

What they didn't know was that the trap was already closed.

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