In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro worries about his great-uncle while helping guests at a resort, and in New Orleans, Emily worries about her sick brother, as a major hurricane rages, changing both their lives forever.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro worries about his great-uncle while helping guests at a resort, and in New Orleans, Emily worries about her sick brother, as a major hurricane rages, changing both their lives forever.
"A Louisiana teen tries to make tuition money working for a sinister organization but finds that leaving comes at a terrible cost. Oliver is saving to attend his dream college in the fall and leave behind his family's New Orleans antique shop for good. And if his job just happens to involve robbing graves for a group calling themselves the Bone Artists, well, money is money, and it's only for now. But Oliver soon learns that the Bone Artists don't take kindly to deserters. And there are some debts that can never be repaid"--Provided by publisher.
Johnnie Wise, a seductively beautiful fifteen-year-old, tries to take care of some unfinished business in New Orleans, including getting to know the white side of her family, persuading the love of her life to take her back, and convincing crime boss Napoleon Bentley that she wants nothing more to do with him.
Johnnie, a self-absorbed, self-righteous courtesan in New Orleans, is being sought after by the police who think she was involved in three murders and when two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the money that Sharon Trudeau stole is missing after Sharon is murdered, everything points to Johnnie.
A sixteen-year-old girl, having run away from her African village to be with the brother of the man she was suppose to marry, is taken aboard a Dutch slave ship and brought to New Orleans where she struggles to adapt to the life of a slave and hopes to be reunited with her lover.
Collects "Ghosts" and "A Good Night for Ghosts" in which Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz.".
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.
