A Novel
Caul of Ravens
A single Ouija board. A family bound by an inheritance no one asked for. When the ravens gather and the lightning answers, the dead are never really finished asking questions.
“The ravens always come first. Then the storm. Then the questions the Ouija board was never supposed to answer. In a family already bent under the weight of what was passed down to them, one more inheritance might be the one that breaks them, or the one that finally sets them free. Caul of Ravens is a novel about the cost of power that runs in the blood, and the terrible, necessary work of naming the thing you were taught never to speak of.”
Inside the Novel
The World of Caul of Ravens
The Lightning Inheritance
The family's magic is not a gift so much as a bill that comes due across generations. It runs in the blood, it answers to storms, and every member of the family pays for it differently.
The Raven Omen
The ravens arrive before anything else does. Their gathering opens the book, and their return marks every turn afterward, a warning that something in the family's old bargain is stirring again.
The Ouija Board
More than a prop, the board is the literal spine of the plot, an object the family cannot fully put away and cannot fully trust, that keeps asking questions the living would rather not answer.
The Grandmother
Nareeia is a Kahuna who was made to leave the family home, and she teaches Leilani to read a storm, ride the lightning, and speak to the dead of her own family. What she hands down is a gift with a debt attached.