In this sequel to "Iron Lace," Aurore Gerritsen has left clear instructions: her will is to be read at her summer cottage on a small Louisiana island. Those who don't stay will forfeit their inheritance. With the vast fortune of Gulf Coast Shipping at stake, no one will take that risk.

"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America ... Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And [his lawyer] will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble...

Anxious to escape her impending wedding to her much-despised fiancé, Etienne Sagesse, Lysette Kersaint seeks refuge with Maximilien Vallerand, a dangerous and powerful rake who has his own plans for the innocent beauty.

"Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service...decides to go stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park...it will take all of Anna's skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself..." --inside cover.

Wulf, an immortal Viking warrior, is forced into the position of protecting Cassandra Peters, a young woman who holds the key to saving the world from Daimons, vicious vampires who must destroy Cassandra to end the curse that has banished them into the darkness.

A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. From her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town, Olivia Bechet has a terrifying vision of the murder. Weeks later, another violent vision shatters her sleep. But jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her - even when a second body turns up, slain in exactly the same bizarre, ritualistic manner Olivia described ... Frustrated by Bentz's skepticism, captivated...

A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.

When a series of brutal ritual slayings is linked to Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, Eve Renner, whose past is tied to this old asylum, must learn to trust her former lover Cole Dennis, who was accused of attempted murder, when she becomes the killer's next target.

Musicians are being murdered in New Orleans. But Arnie Watson apparently died by his own hand. When Tyler Anderson plays the saxophone he inherited from Arnie, a soldier and musician who died soon after his return, he believes he sees visions of his friend's life--and death. He becomes convinced Arnie was murdered and that the instrument had something to do with whatever happened, and with whatever's happening all over the city. Tyler knows his theory...

"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants...