The Catacombs' Curse

by A K Patch

When Ezzy and Remy Alares visit the Paris Catacombs they should have paid more attention to the instructions: Don’t touch the bones. What happens next will test all they thought sacred and true.

1815. Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the battle of Waterloo, Alexandre Guynemer and his wife, Giselle, plan to escape from their role as carrier pigeon operators for a London bank. But when a competitor wants the information they possess, a disastrous chain of events results in the couple’s murders and their bones abandoned within the Paris Catacombs.

Near future. Remy and Ezzy crave a vacation from the stress of Remy’s hard-earned career in New York City. While visiting the famous catacombs, Remy accidently touches a skull, becomes delusional and claims he’s two hundred years dead. The reborn soul, armed with a second chance, should be concentrating on a path forward with this miraculous regeneration but instead pursues avenues of revenge for their diabolical murders in the past and has no intention of giving back the life taken.

From the Belgium battlefield of Waterloo in 1815, to vibrant Paris, Caribbean Islands, New York City and the Cordillera Mountains of the Philippines, The Catacombs’ Curse is an insanely woven tale of betrayal, revenge, financial world corruption, and spiritual enlightenment with an otherworldly twist that will have you wondering if our reality is different than what we imagine it to be.

AK Patch is the author of The Apollo Series trilogy. A few years earlier, he visited the Paris Catacombs. Something happened. He wrote this story, The Catacombs’ Curse.