Den of Iniquity
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Red Tail Productions - Bernadette’s company that promotes her shows via email
Judith Silberschmid (AKA ‘Judy Neumann’) - Rebecca’s aunt. Sister to Yacob Silberschmid. Necromancer. Former apprentice to both Remy St. Jacques and Julius Lafayettte. Lives in the Pioneer Home in Prescott.
Roger Banks - William’s brother-in-law. Electrical engineer. Husband to Allison. They live in Raleigh North Carolina.
Allison Banks - William’s sister. Has returning lymphoma cancer. Wive of Roger. They live in Raleigh North Carolina.
Steven Cheung - Audrey’s father. Korean-Anglo American. Sorcerer. Only known sorcerer to retire from service with the Church. Married to Lidia. Lives in Peoria, Arizona.
Lidia Cheung - Audrey’s mother. Korean-Black American. Wife of Steven Cheung. Lives in Peoria, Arizona.
Jack Jerome - Retired hunter from the Church. Occasionally gets called back for ‘special’ cases. His primary profession now is an IT consultant project manager. Darcy Conroy is his ‘pet’ and personal assistant or ‘PA’. Frequent client of Bernadette’s salon
Darcy Conroy - Jack Jerome’s ‘pet’ and PA.
Susan Rey - Will’s boss and Construction Insurance Brokerage (CIB), Director of Change Management. Tall, lean, sexy. Tries to seduce Will. Unfinished business.
Sidney Aloicious Beauchamps - apprentice sorcerer in the 1800s. He’s the dandy apprentice to Laurence Clement. Gay man, but wants to be a woman. Roughly 5’8” tall, very attractive young man.
Dan Seamus Tomlinson - Marissa’s father. Married to Maria. Retired police sergeant. Security contractor. Fifth degree blackbelt in American Kenpo.
Maria Tomlinson - Marissa’s mother. Married to Dan.
Angélus Gwenéfron (AKA ‘Gwen’) - summoned by Shimon Leuvenfeld to be Rebecca’s ‘Angélus Cústos,’ guardian angel. Had previously only worked as an ‘Angélus Núntius,’ or messenger angel
Angélus Michaélis (AKA ‘Mick,’ AKA ‘the Archangel Michael) - friend of Gwen. Four wings. Archangel.
Julius Lafayette - necromancer from the 1800’s. Killed the Leuvenfeld family in trying to take ownership of Gwen. Was the master of Josephine, Babette, Charlene, and Judith.
Lonnie - Henchman of Julius Lafayette. Will suspects he’s an elf because Gwen said there was an elf and a devourer as henchmen. Elven race is unconfirmed.
Alfonse - Henchman of Julius Lafayette. Devourer hosted in a zombie. Killed by William James.
Cyrus Masterson - miner that threatens Carla. Will made him a zombie, and ordered him to suicide by policeman.
Officer Johnson - Male police officer. Questions William in the Walgreens after the zombie attack. Responds to Carla’s call for assistance when Cyrus threatens her. Partner to Officer Bird.
Officer Bird - Female police officer. Questions Rebecca in the Walgreens after the zombie attack. Responds to Carla’s call for assistance when Cyrus threatens her. Partner to Officer Johnson. Begins flirting with William starting Halloween.
August Montgomery (AKA Gus, AKA Monty) - Retired Army Sergeant Major. Martial artist. Firearms dealer and instructor. Friend of William.
Monique - Monty’s girlfriend.
Jonathan Copeland - dementia patient used to host Xranalazny.
Marta Silberschmid - Rebecca’s mother
Yacob Silberschmid - Rebecca’s father
Marvin Feinstein - Yacob Silberschmid’s business partner.
Gerry - Will’s friend from the gym. Helps Will move.
Diana - Gerry’s wife
Zach - construction supervisor at Hanson Construction. Supervisor for the project to renovate Will’s house.
Melanie - Will’s ex-wife. Adulteress.
Michael - musician friend
Sonya - Michael’s insane girlfriend.
Sergeant Lewis - Male police sergeant. Lead the investigation at the Walgreens after the zombie attack.
Officer Lopez - police officer that interviews witnesses at the Walgreens after the zombie attack. Mentioned, but not seen.
Officer Brown - police officer that interviews witnesses at the Walgreens after the zombie attack. Mentioned, but not seen.
Ms. Martinez - middle-aged Latina with a baby. Witness at the Walgreens after the zombie attack.
Lars Christiensen - Norweigian miner that dies at Bernadette’s hand by repeatedly reinvigorating him until he died of over stimulation.
Remy St. Jacques - Will’s five-times-great grandfather on both sides of his family.
Sara Leuvenfeld - witch from the 1800s. Rebecca’s mentor.
Shimon Leuvenfeld - sorcerer from the 1800s. Husband to Rebecca’s mentor. Summoned Gwen to be Rebecca’s guardian angel.
Kory Standish - school classmate of Will’s in high school and college. Gay. Will stood by him when others didn’t. Sydney’s voice in the bolt reminds Will of Kory.
Laurence Clement - sorcerer from the 1800’s. Worked with Lafayette to capture Gwen. Master of Sidney Beauchamps
Charlene Tully - apprenticed to Julius Lafayette as a necromancer in the 1800s. Shorter, slender red-headed girl with long hair running down her back dressed in a fashionable dress. Her ghost is still held in a bolt ‘container’ constructed by Josie.
Mason Smith - apprentice sorcerer in the 1800s. He’s over six feet tall, dour apprentice to Laurence Clement.
Haimish - clerk at the Biltmore Embassy Suites.
Bruce Bennett - City Building Inspector and chair of the Historical Review Board.
Mary Bennett - Bruce’s wife
Michael ‘Mickey’ Bennett - Bruce and Mary’s 10-year old son. Plays sports, particularly Little League baseball.
Addison ‘Addie’ Bennett - Bruce and Mary’s 8-year old daughter. Tennis prodigy.
Delores Aguilar - Will’s real estate agent.
Kelly - receptionist at Yavapai Title. Obese, pregnant, pretty with died black hair
Morgan - Title Officer at Yavapai Title. Aging cheerleader. Somewhere around 60 years old.
The Carsons - owners of the house we buy on Mt. Vernon.
Imps
Don’t call them lesser imps, it’s disrespectful. (They don’t mind being called ‘critters’)
Xerxes
Hermes
Argo
Greater Imps
Xralnazny - Greater imp lord that is trying to come back to take over earth
The elves
House Valeran
Lorn Valeran - Duke of House Valeran
Valya Valeran - Duchess of House Valeran. Magician. Originally from House Serenissima
Reddy - Guard of Lorn and Valya
Yoren - Guard of Lorn and Valya
Feliz - Lady-in-waiting to Valya Valeran, commoner
Ilara’en - Lady-in-waiting to Valya Valeran. Royal. Became the zombie Lara.
House Spirituae
Rallent’or Nix - doctor contracted through Chrysilla. Killed Ilara’en
Unknown house
Chrysilla - broker for sorcerers. Finds elves with certain skills to be contracted. Audrey’s broker
Lonnie - Lafayette henchman. Thought to be elven. Not confirmed
Succubae
Royal House of Luxure
the imperial house of all the succubaen planets. The family Ravissement is the royal family on Aloïse’s planet
Alafair Ravissement - Planetary Queen and sister of Gabrielle and Aloïse
Gabrielle Ravissement - Heir to the Queen and sister of Alafair and Aloïse
Aloïse Ravissement - Duchess and sister to Alafair and Gabrielle. Hosted in the zombie Babette Printemps since the 1860s. Goes by ‘Bernadette Pasquale.’
Shryl - hosted by Vanessa. Commoner from a family that has served the Ravissement family for generations.
Chronology of Ghost Story, the Accidental Necromancer, Book 1:
William “Will” James moves into an apartment at the Doric Apartments
Rebecca manifests as a ghost in Will’s mirror in the apartment
Will has drunken phone sex with
his girlfriend in Phoenix, Audrey
Rebecca eats Will’s essence to discover that it makes her stronger
Rebecca asks Will to feed her, and he does. Rebecca becomes more solid with each feeding
Marissa comes to visit. Reveals that she has a girlfriend, and that breast tumor disappeared after sex. Not a fluke; it happened seven times.
Will introduces Marissa and Rebecca. He tells Marissa about Audrey, too
Rebecca gets enough life force from Will to create a living body.
Rebecca blows Will’s mind by explaining about the magical world. She tells him he used magical power to raise her from the dead.
Will is attacked by a zombie in Walgreens. Will kills him by sucking the life out of him.
Will, Marissa, and Rebecca meet Gwen, Rebecca’s guardian angel, chained in the excavated basement of Will’s house.
Will picks up the bolts holding the ghosts of Josie, Sidney, Charlene, and Mason. Will releases
Will raises Josie from the dead
Marissa breaks up with Carla, her girlfriend. Will, Rebecca, and Josie help her move out.
Will meets Marissa’s parent, Dan and Maria Tomlinson.
Will contracts with Bernadette to use her connections to get legal identities for Rebecca and Josie.
Will and Audrey hook up. Audrey determines that Will is a necromancer.
Audrey tells Will about the danger the Church poses to him and his growing family.
Audrey breaks up out of fear of the Church
Will meets his boss, Susan Rey, face-to-face for the first time while he is holding his workshops at the hotel.
Julius Lafayette buys Will’s house hoping to recover ‘his property.’
Will ties up Susan in a Shibari construct. She enjoys it.
Will picks up the documents from Bernadette on his way home. Viktorija calls Audrey to meet him there.
Audrey and Will reconcile in Bernadette’s office. Bernadette and Viktorija enjoy the show from Bernadette’s bedroom.
Audrey meets Marissa, Rebecca, and Josie.
Marissa and Will buy a house
Will destroys Alfonse, Lafayette’s indentured devourer, and maims Lafayette’s left hand.
Story ends
Also by JG Jerome
Published On Amazon
The Green Lord Series
Dumb Luck
(Book 1)
Courting Crazy
(Book 2)
Dread
(Book 3)
The Accidental Necromancer
Ghost Story
(Book 1)
Den of Iniquity
(Book 2)
Published on Patreon
Master of the Road
(published as a serial in multiple posts for Patrons only)
Clarice’s Admirer
(Short Story - a single public post)
About the Author
I get to talk about myself in the third person - what fun!
JG Jerome is a part time author and full-time ‘IT Guy.’ He grew up a Kansas farm boy, and he is an old soldier. He lives, works, makes music, and writes in Arizona with his wife Heather. He dabbles in martial arts, fitness training, cooking, bread baking, photography, drawing, singing, and playing multiple musical instruments. His first book was ‘Dumb Luck,’ the first book in the three-volume Green Lord series. He is currently working on a variety of stories in his Zombieverse - the Accidental Necromancer series, and the Master of the Road serial on Patreon.