Marie Laveau's descendant -- a sensual, spiritual contemporary trilogy "Rivet[ing]"

— Publishers Weekly

Coming August 2008

A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood.  What connects them?  Why are they rising as ghosts?

Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau knows better than anyone New Orleans’ brutal past—the legacy of slavery, poverty, racism and sexism—and as a Doctor at Charity Hospital’s ER, she treats its current victims.

When she sleeps, she dreams of blood.  Rain, never-ending. 

The river is rising and the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil—an African vampire—wazimamoto —a spirit created by colonial oppression.

The struggle becomes personal, as the wazimamoto is intent on destroying her and all the Laveau descendents.  Marie fights to protect her daughter, lover, and herself from the wazimamoto’s seductive assault on both body and spirit.

Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, Yellow Moon gives us an unforgettable heroine—sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious—in Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe.

Part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season—magical realist fiction that takes the legend of the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, as imagined by Jewell Parker Rhodes in the bestselling Voodoo Dreams, into the present day.

Voodoo Season

VOODOO SEASON is a sequel to my first novel, VOODOO DREAMS. It is the start of a contemporary series set before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. The trilogy includes VOODOO SEASON, VOODOO JAZZ, and HURRICANE LEVEE BLUES.

I had always planned on writing a sequel to my first novel, VOODOO DREAMS,

VOODOO DREAMS has a special place in my heart, because the novel helped me grow up and taught me, like Marie Laveau, to appreciate truly the glory and wonder of being a woman; powerful;spiritual; in control of her life and body; valuing ancestors, family, and community.

VOODOO SEASON is the first novel in a contemporary trilogy in which Marie Laveau’s descendent grows stronger and also more vulnerable.

What’s the sense of living if we don’t open our hearts to love…accept our imperfections and recognize that life is a journey, never ending? Our spirits never die…and each of us has a responsibility to leave a legacy of grace, kindness, and mentoring to our children and the next generation.

Read VOODOO DREAMS, the novel that started the journey; enjoy VOODOO SEASON; and look for Marie, healing and loving in the next novel of the trilogy, VOODOO JAZZ.