Gold Coast Arcana

In Ventura, California, the Mission San Buenaventura has stood for more than two centuries — whitewashed adobe, hand-hewn beams darkened by candle smoke, and a silence that presses against the chest of anyone who lingers too long. It is the last mission Junípero Serra ever founded, and the ground beneath it remembers everything. So, when a phone rings on a quiet spring evening and Dr. Simon Deleon...

Lessons in Neighborliness: Chapter Three--Old Woman Datura In the darkness behind her eyes, Dea sees centuries collapse into moments. Holy men approaching a sacred spring. A lone vaquero leaving an offering. And then the shovels — scraping across something that was never supposed to be moved. The vision tells her everything: what was taken, where it belongs, and what will happen if it isn't return...

Dr. Simon Deleon puts his hand on the ground and what he finds isn't human. It's never been human. It's angry, it's hungry, and it's radiating outward from somewhere around the Olivas Adobe. Now four people with very different gifts — a tarot reader, a dowser, a docent, and a psychic who keeps everyone at arm's length — must find the source before the land consumes everything around it. The pendul...

A historic adobe. A routine tour. A feeling that won't let go. When Jax visits the Olivas Adobe, he expects old rooms and interesting history — not phantom music, a buzzing that no one else can hear, and crops blackening and dying in an expanding ring around the property. And then there's the woman. The one in the long black dress who watches him from the archway — and vanishes before he can reach...

A man walks alone down a dark road in a torrential downpour. He doesn't know his name. When twin siblings Dea and Jax pull over to help, they have no idea they're about to meet someone who will change everything — a university professor who moonlights as a psychic investigator, found wandering miles from his car with no memory of what drove him into the night.