Vauclain Monsters · Book 5
Brightwater
Even here, there is light at the edge of the dark. The household’s story continues in the penultimate novel.
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What is Brightwater about?
Even here, there is light at the edge of the dark. The household’s story continues in the penultimate novel.
Read the six main novels in order, beginning with Boundwater. Last Frost is an optional prequel.
People and creatures
Della Vauclain is a practical human heir arriving from Ohio. Her four nonhuman partners are Sable, the house spirit tied to the covenant tree; Feu, a will-o’-wisp; Corvin, a rougarou guarding the eastern fence; and Leste, the gilled creature of the channel below the Hollow.
World and setting
A Louisiana bayou property in fictional Vauclain Parish: a house, covenant tree, boundary fence, and waterway governed by older supernatural bargains.
What’s at stake
Feu’s place in the household collides with the parish’s ritual fires, while Della’s body carries the accumulating cost of her bargains.
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