Some numbers are magic, others deadly
French Quarter P.I. Wyatt Thomas is trapped in a waking nightmare. The childhood trauma he spent decades suppressing is surging to the surface, triggering violent night terrors and shattering his grip on reality. Known for investigating the paranormal alongside his business partner, Mama Mulate, a Tulane professor and voodoo mambo, Wyatt is unraveling, jeopardizing their practice. As his erratic behavior escalates, his inner circle secretly plans an intervention, terrified that his descent into madness will end in self-harm or worse.The line between the job and his sanity blurs completely when a wealthy matron hires the duo to investigate her haunted French Quarter townhouse. The ghost is her late husband, a man tightly bound to Wyatt’s own corrupt and abusive grandfather, a former Louisiana governor whose assassination shattered his youth. The investigation sends Wyatt on a collision course with a glamorous yet tragic hallucination: the "ghost" of Marilyn Monroe. She isn't a literal spirit but a manifestation of his fracturing psyche, her own history of public glamor and private abuse mirroring the dark family secrets he has locked away.
To solve the case and banish his personal demons, Wyatt must brave the shadows of the French Quarter and confront the grandfather's cruel legacy. But he is running out of time. If he can’t uncover the truth about his family's violent past and many of the events from his own unsettling past, and decipher what his mind is trying to tell him through Marilyn, he risks succumbing to the same madness that claimed his grandmother, losing his livelihood, his friends, and his sanity.
Genre: Mystery