Sow What You Reap (Reaping Covetous #1)

Seeing and speaking with lingering spirits should be the insanity in Leah McKnight’s life. Murdered parents and a homicidal twin brother on the lamb tell a different story. It’s not the dead causing Leah near-crippling anxiety, sleepless nights, and damaging nightmares—it’s the living.

Six years have passed since the August night Leah found her parents murdered in their bed, her sixteen-year-old twin brother Bobby holding the gun. Leah’s lived through hell and back, much of it her own mental making. Each day is a struggle, but she still rolls off her couch, feeds her cat, and heads to work.

Sometimes the status quo is the best one can hope for, what one desperately holds on to. Witnessing a reaper claiming the soul of a dead man upends Leah’s hard-won stab at normalcy.

Now Leah’s got a choice: talk with the lingering spirits of the dead, discovering why they turned from their reaper, or continue ignoring them. Leah’s not the only one in her family with special gifts. Her cousin Cecile can’t see the dead, but she can feel their emotions, flipping her personality, and leaving debilitating migraines in their wake.

Clearing the lingering spirits from the town of Covetous will help her cousin, but what will that do to Leah’s pieced-together sanity? The prickly reaper Leah has to deal with in the process won’t make her job any easier.

After all, reapers deal with the dead, not the living.

Trigger warnings: Death and dying, gun violence, mental illness, miscarriages, murder, self harm, suicide attempts.

This book also contains the importance of friendship, recognizing and accepting help when offered, protecting your family—related by blood or not—the furry ones that make our houses homes, prickly reapers, humor, and a hint of looming romantic intrigue.