To Save a Victim, Camille St. James May Have to Become One Herself. Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills on freeing wrongly incarcerated individuals on death row. Jack paid a bitter price for his mistakes. No longer a high-powered corporate attorney, he's now pastor of a small church in Blood Bayou. Unsure of her own beliefs, Camille is highly skeptical of the conversion of this man she hasn't seen in seven years. Then tragedy strikes again. Jack's sister is murdered, apparently by a prisoner Camille has set free. To prove his innocence, Camille must return to Blood Bayou. But that means facing the hostility of the town -- and Jack. And as She Works to Find the Real Killer, Someone Is Determined to Stop Her...by Any Means.

When their daughter Ellie gets in trouble at school, LaShaun Rousselle and her deputy husband Chase Broussard find themselves pulled into a murky web of secrets, lies, and murder. What starts as a simple disciplinary issue soon turns into a complex investigation, with Ellie's tutor charged with murder and links to Chase's latest case. As the evidence mounts against the girl, LaShaun must rely on her psychic abilities and an eccentric old woman living in the swamps to uncover the truth and save an innocent life. With the help of an unlikely ally, LaShaun must unravel the mysteries of Blood Bayou and confront the dark forces that lurk there before it's too late.

Newly awakened witch Teresa Diaz and her vampire friends Justine Croft and Simone Gireaux had run out of leads in their search for Teresa's abducted teenage daughter, Antonia. Their hope is rekindled by an unexpected message: two other teenage girls, victims of a vampire-family sex trafficking ring, have escaped a murder attempt in New Orleans and disappeared. One of them might have information that could help Teresa, Justine and Simone find Antonia. The three friends hit the road for The Big Easy and are immediately catapulted into a complicated war between rival vampire families, their business associates and their adversaries--all of whom also want to find the missing girls. As Teresa, still mastering her magical powers, fights alongside Justine and Simone against vampires, sorcerers and corrupt law enforcement, enemies from the past are pursuing them all. Meanwhile, Antonia's captor, an ancient vampire named Rubicon, is using the girl for an experiment whose outcome could have world-ending implications for mortals. From the Katrina-scarred streets of New Orleans to the most inaccessible depths of Louisiana swampland, the three women pursue tenuous clues as lethal mercenaries human and supernatural follow close behind. Will they learn where Antonia is held? Or will treachery and the frailty of human life take them to a dead end? Picking up the storyline from Blood Justice and Blood on the Water, Blood on the Bayou continues award-winning author David Burton's exciting saga of love, loss and vengeance.

Things get rough for psychologist Kit Franklyn and Chief Medical Examiner Andy Broussard when they investigate three French Quarter mutilation-murders somehow connected to the rare disease, lycanthropy--werewolfism

"With an uncanny grasp of what makes people tick, John Oscar Atkinson's latest thriller, Blood Bayou keeps nerves frazzled as the fast paced plot unfolds. Unsavory, quirky characters pull unwilling participants into the sinister events and won't let go. The aura of the bayou is compelling." Margaret Sibley"Spellbinding! from cover to cover Blood Bayou had me riding on the edge of my seat....."Chris Meadows, Literary Aficionado"Meet characters you'll remember for the rest of you life and risk being permanently haunted by John's Oscar Atkinson's bayou". Ann Sale

A self-made millionaire living in Malibu, Miranda Marquette is summoned by her cousin Sabine, to return home to New Orleans and solve a mystery. Miranda, an ex-undercover vice cop, jumps in with both feet to help her cousin. While investigating the case, she learns more about her family than she ever wanted to know, including a secret that will change her relationship with Sabine forever. No matter what you think, when you go below the surface, things are seldom what they seem. The first book in J.T. Kunkel's Miranda Marquette Mysteries series, BLOOD ON THE BAYOU is set against the beautiful backdrop of the Gulf Coast.