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Coyote Ridge (eBook)
| Coyote Ridge | |
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 Coyote Ridge eBook Cover, written by Drake Lyons | |
| Author(s) | Drake Lyons |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | May 26, 2025 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 134 Pages |
| ASIN | B0F9Y1CZNH |
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Coyote Ridge is an eBook written by Drake Lyons. In this work the character Marisol Vega is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Coyote Ridge
- Author: Drake Lyons
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 134 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0F9Y1CZNH
- Publishing Date: May 26, 2025
Plot Summary
He came home to bury his father. He never expected to fall for the creature the land wouldn't let go.
Jack Carver inherits more than a failing California cattle ranch when his father dies — he inherits a land with memory, secrets, and an old wound that never quite healed. Grief-stricken and emotionally shut off, Jack wants only to put the ranch in order and leave the past buried. But Coyote Ridge has other plans.
Marisol Vega is a succubus — powerful, hunted, and tired of running. The last place she expected to find shelter was a weathered ranch and a man like Jack: quiet, grounded, entirely human. She's not supposed to want anything. Not love. Not safety. Not a life. But something in this place, in him, awakens a second heart she thought she'd lost.
As the land stirs and watchers begin to close in, Jack and Marisol must fight for more than survival. To protect her, Jack will have to confront the truth of what lives beneath the soil — and what he’s willing to become.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on February 3, 2026
Jack comes home to find his past, his present, and a mystery that offers a future. But the path has peaks and valleys, forces which pull on him and the mystery of Marisol which haunts them both.
The work is a long form story of discovery, understanding and the search for one’s own truths. Very atmospheric, the setting, events and characters are something of a mystery throughout with really much of the answers being left to the imagination of the reader. A very strong undercurrent of longing carries from beginning to end, and at the same time the characters do come to a resolution which fits well but leaves much inferred to be wondered about.
Marisol, who is described as being a succubus is very difficult to place into being so. There are hints of her nature, little fragments of what she is, but that’s so much less important than who she begins the story as and the journey she undertakes. The tone and writing of the story just sets the question of her nature aside and even when it is mentioned, almost in passing, to the main character Jack, it passes with barely a ripple in the storytelling. Marisol being a succubus is part of her nature, but to the overall story, it’s more a bit of flavour to her character than anything else.
It’s very much a story about the mysterious and the mystical with a tone and voice that is really quite unique. Given the amount of shading about much of the events, it’s not surprising that the story was sparse on some detail, but overall that was made up for by the tone and flavour of the storytelling. With that said, a bit more delving into Marisol herself would have been nice. Not as to see her and her kind as a threat, that’s not the point. More to understand her better than was allowed in the story.
Four out of five pitchforks.
The work closes in a way that’s hopeful and promising, there is a moment before that occurs which feels a little tacked onto the story and honestly the two characters involved with it didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s more that they appeared so fleetingly in the story that their purpose didn’t seem to matter that much overall. It’s a very unique story told in a very unique way and I enjoyed it very much. But as a story about a succubus, it’s missing some pieces of the puzzle that I wish had been explored even a little bit more.