Black Dust Mambo

The first in exciting urban fantasy series about a fledgling voodoo priestess who gets caught up in murderous intrigue.

Kallie Rivire, a fiery Cajun hoodoo apprentice with a talent for trouble, finds herself smack-dab in the middle of one of those times her mentor warned her about when she visits New Orleans to attend the Hecatean Alliance's annual carnival: her hard-bodied conjurer hookup ends up dead in her blood-drenched bed. And he was killed by something that Kallie would never dream of touchingthe darkest of dark juju, soul-eating jujua black dust hex that may have been meant to kill her.

Now Kallie has to use every bit of hoodoo knowledge and bayou-bred mojo she possesses to clear her own name and find the killereven as that dark sorcerer hunts Kallie and her friends. But Kallie's search for the truth soon leads her in a direction she never anticipatedback home to Bayou Cyprs Noir, and to Gabrielle LaRue, Kallie's aunt, protector, and hoodoo mentor...who is looking more and more like she just might be the one who wants Kallie dead.