Untitled AI art by @helpful-wolf8

Chris Morgan came to New Orleans to help rebuild. A man of quiet faith and uncommon strength, he expected hard labor and longer days — not the strange pull of a bar called The Neutral Ground, and not the world that waited for him inside it. New Orleans has always kept its secrets close. Beneath the jazz and the jasmine, beneath the flood lines still etched on crumbling walls, something ancient moves through the city's veins. Something that has watched empires rise and fall. Something that has been waiting. For someone exactly like Chris. Drawn into a hidden world of shadow and power, Chris must confront truths that no sermon ever prepared him for — and make choices that will test everything he believes about faith, loyalty, and what it truly means to be human. In a city still rising from the dead... some things never needed a resurrection. The Keepers — the darkness in New Orleans isn't a myth. It's a hierarchy.