April is alone in the world. When she was only a baby, her teenage mother took off and now, unbelievably, her dad has died. Nobody' s left to take April in except her mom' s sister, a free spirit who' s a chef in New Orleans--and someone who April' s never met. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, April is suddenly supposed to navigate a city that feels just like she feels, fighting back from impossibly bad breaks. But it' s Miles, a bayou boy, who really brings April into the heart of the Big Easy. He takes her to the cemetery where nineteenth-century voodoo queen Marie Laveau is buried, and there, April gets a shocking clue about her own past. Once she has a piece of the puzzle, she knows she will never give up. What she doesn' t know is that finding out the truth about her past and the key to her future could cost her everything--maybe even her life.
