Ship of the Dead

This short story is a prequel to the Templar Series

Adeyemi leads a band of rebel Maroons in the mountains of eighteenth-century Haiti, but one by one, his men are found dead—bitten on their necks and drained of blood. Is the murderer an evil spirit? An animal? Or are the killings somehow related to the eight strangers that arrived from France on a ship where nearly all of the crew are dead?