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Hapi by Lisa Henry writing as Cari Waites
Malicious Gods: Egypt, Book 1
Jayden Sanders is a dead man.
Jayden is trying to reach Cairns when his car dies on the highway and leaves him stranded in a caravan park in Innisfail. As the rain comes down and the crocodile-infested river rises, Jayden becomes fascinated by the strange man who lives across the river—Hapi. What Jayden doesn’t know is that Hapi has already marked him for his own.
Hapi and his brothers, the sons of Horus, prepare the souls of the dead for their father, and each claim protection over a part of the body. When Hapi pulls Jayden from the flooded river, he claims Jayden’s lungs, and his breath, as his due. But what happens when he decides he wants more than that?
Jayden refuses to believe it when Hapi tells him he’s dead, but his only hope of getting out of Innisfail alive is by playing along with Hapi’s delusions. And with Horus due to arrive any day, time is running out for Jayden.
Or maybe it already has.
Welcome to the dark world of Malicious Gods: Egypt. A collection of mm standalone modern tales, both magical and non-magical, featuring deities from Ancient Egypt. You’ll find reincarnated Gods, assassins, gangs, madness, and different realities. Expect high heat and morally ambiguous themes. Seductive and often twisted, they are not for the fainthearted.
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Jayden splashed up the gravel path toward the front of the caravan park. He rounded a curve and discovered exactly what the crashing sound had been. Sure enough, a palm tree, one of those ones with multiple trunks radiating out from its centre, had come down in a tangle of fronds. Somewhere underneath the wreckage, Jayden guessed, was the power line that had connected his cabin with the rest of the park’s supply.
Jayden wasn’t dumb enough to try to crawl over a downed tree with a potential live wire twisted through it. The park was built on a circuit, he knew from his previous explorations, which meant he just had to backtrack and go the long way around. It wasn’t like he could get any wetter at this point. Water sluiced down the back of his shirt as he followed the path past his cabin and toward the river.
It was dark—Jayden realised he had no idea of what time it was—but the crunch of wet gravel under his shoes told him he was still following the path. Right up until suddenly, without warning, the ground dropped away from underneath him and he stumbled, landing on his knees in the mud. He grappled for a handhold, grasping uselessly at a clump of grass that ripped wetly out of the mud as he continued to slide.
And then water.
Jayden kicked out, losing a shoe in the process as his foot caught in sucking mud. He opened his mouth and tasted muddy water.
What the hell was going on? Was he in the fucking river?
His blood turned to ice.
Crocs.
He reached out to where he thought the riverbank was, still trying to get his feet under him. His heart raced. God, was there a croc coming for him now? Would he feel it? Fear lit a fire under him, but he still scrabbled uselessly. He finally caught a root and tried to use it to pull himself out of the water. The root came out of the riverbank like a loose thread in a knitted jumper.
From somewhere close by, Jayden heard a splashing sound.
Maybe a fish.
Maybe debris tumbling into the water.
Maybe a fucking croc. What the fuck did Jayden know?
Using the last of his strength, Jayden dug his fingers into the muddy riverbank and then hauled himself half out of the water. He caught the roots of something bigger this time. For a moment, he thought he’d succeeded, before a cracking sound directly above him warned him that the tree was breaking.
A branch caught him a glancing blow on the side of the head, and he fell back into the river, dizzy and dazed. His mouth filled with muddy water, his vision went black, and then he couldn’t feel the riverbank underneath him at all. He struck out with his limbs, both afraid to move in case of crocodiles, and afraid not to, but he was suddenly heavy and uncoordinated. He tried to call out, but he didn’t know if he even made a sound.
The rain still pounded down, and something tangled around his legs, and over the roar in his skull Jayden thought he imagined the sound of a motor. He struggled, churning the river as water closed over his head.
He panicked and tried to pull free of whatever had caught him. He pushed toward the surface, mouth open to suck in a desperate breath—except somehow it wasn’t the surface he found, just more dark water that poured down his throat and filled his lungs.
His vision went black.
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About Lisa:
Cari Waites is the dark alter ego of Lisa Henry.
Lisa likes to tell stories, mostly with hot guys and happily ever afters.
Lisa lives in tropical North Queensland, Australia. She doesn’t know why, because she hates the heat, but she suspects she’s too lazy to move. She spends half her time slaving away as a government minion, and the other half plotting her escape.
She attended university at sixteen, not because she was a child prodigy or anything, but because of a mix-up between international school systems early in life. She studied History and English, neither of them very thoroughly.
Lisa has been published since 2012, and was a LAMBDA finalist for her quirky, awkward coming-of-age romance Adulting 101, and a Rainbow Awards finalist for 2019’s Anhaga.
To connect with Lisa on social media, you can find her here:
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She also has a Facebook group where you’ll be kept in the loop with updates on releases, have a chance to win prizes, and probably see lots of lots of pictures of her dog and cats. You can find it here: Lisa Henry’s Hangout.
