Previously on Bayou Blood: Family Ties
Normal life is a dangerous illusion in Bayou Mounds.
The news breaks early. Another fire. Another scene reduced to ash and silence. Everdale burns, and the past refuses to stay quiet. For Sheryl Brown, the images on the screen feel too familiar, dragging old memories back into focus. Blood. Smoke. The cost of survival.
Derek feels it too. The sense that something is circling closer now. Weapons change hands. Conversations turn serious. No one says the truth out loud, but everyone feels it. Whatever is hunting Bayou Mounds is no longer distant.
At work, Sheryl tries to hold onto routine. Lunch conversations. Laughter. A date that almost feels like a return to normal. For a few hours, she allows herself to believe that control is still possible. That she can live in the daylight without consequences.
But some predators don’t hunt in the open.
Chapter Seven tightens the noose around Family Ties. Lines blur between professional and personal. Trust becomes a liability. And the cost of getting close is no longer theoretical.
The danger isn’t just circling the city anymore.
It’s stepping inside homes.
Calling names.
Wearing familiar faces.
Bayou Mounds is learning the truth too late.
Read Chapter Seven in full now on Substack.
Early access is now live, and the line between safety and slaughter has been blurred.
Some monsters don’t announce themselves.
They wait until you feel safe.
