When the living sleep, the dead come out to drink
In the sultry haze of New Orleans, where shadows whisper secrets and history bleeds through the soil, private investigator Wyatt Thomas—renowned for untangling the city’s haunted past—tackles the enigma of Belle Reve’s destruction. The antebellum plantation mansion lies in charred ruins, officially blamed on an electrical fault. But the streets hum with darker tales: arson fueled by vengeance, fanned by social media vitriol hailing the fire as ‘justice’ for the estate’s brutal slaveholding legacy. Some point to descendants of the enslaved, their pain etched into the land’s bones. Others murmur of a voodoo curse, an otherworldly reckoning for sins long buried.Skeptical yet drawn to the city’s mystical pulse, Wyatt plunges into the case, joined by Lena Hathaway, a sharp-witted single mom driving a billionaire’s limo to survive. Together, they navigate from the smoldering ashes of Iberville Parish to the French Quarter’s smoke-filled bars, where old vendettas and fresh betrayals ignite. As secrets unravel and danger closes in, Wyatt faces a truth as volatile as the flames that consumed Belle Reve.
Blood and Ashes, Book 15 of Eric Wilder’s seductive French Quarter Mystery Series, immerses you in the intoxicating, perilous heart of New Orleans. Don your gris-gris and brace for Wyatt Thomas’ most explosive adventure yet—a mystery where the past burns bright and the truth could turn to ash.
Genre: Urban Fantasy