Smoke and Shadows

Jean-Michel Duval walks with spirits - not by choice, but by blood.

Marked as a child beneath a sacred mapou tree in Haiti, Jean hears the Lwa when others hear silence. He sees the dead where others see shadows. And though he claims no faith, the spirits still whisper through his breath and move through his smoke.

Now living in Los Angeles, he works quietly, helping those haunted by things they cannot name - broken mothers, cursed children, restless ancestors. But every ritual comes with a cost, and every favor borrowed from the other side pulls him deeper into a world of gods that wear human masks and debts that never forget.