The Crow: Wicked Prayer (novel)

The Crow: Wicked Prayer is a 2000 novel written by Norman Partridge. It is the fifth and penultimate instalment in a series of six Crow Tie In Novels, being preceded by The Crow Temple Of Night and proceeded by The Crow Hellbound. An ex-drifter named Dan Cody is on his way to propose to his girlfriend Leticia Dreams the Truth Hardin, a half-Crow Native who runs a small Arizona tourist trap called the Spirit Song Trading Post. Unfortunately for Dan, a pair of goth occultists named Johnny Church and Kyra Damon have beaten him to Leticia, whose unusual blue eyes they need for their quest to steal the mythical powers of the crows. After killing Dan and Leticia, the evil duo take Leticia's eyes, seal her and her boyfriend's bodies in an old refrigerator, and resume their journey, guided by Kyra's grimoire and a sassy Shrunken Head named Raymondo. A single crow fights its way through the magical defenses that Kyra had placed around the corpses of the murdered lovers, and resurrects Dan as the new Crow, so that he can not only avenge his and Leticia's deaths, but also put a stop to Kyra's plans, which not only endanger the crow and its brethren, but also the very souls of every prior unjustly murdered mortal who the crows had revived as a Crow. The book was very loosely adapted into a 2005 Direct-to-Video film of the same name that was written and directed by Lance Mungia, and co-written by Jeff Most and Sean Hood. It starred Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Edward Furlong, and Emmanuelle Chriqui.