I am Renee Laguerre. French Resistance Fighter. Voodoo Queen. Mother.
The horrors of World War II live on in many minds, but I hold a precious memory from 1944 close to my heart. Secreted away in the Black Forest of France, I met him. He should have been my enemy, but as we fought together to stop the monsters created by Hitler’s thirst for a werewolf army, survival turned into passion.
Now, forty-one years later, he’s back––not in France, but the shadowy streets of New Orleans, home of dark voodoo, haunted cemeteries, and sultry July heat that could drive a normal human mad. Together we have to find the soucouyant, a Haitian shapeshifting vampire, terrorizing the city. And I’ll have to tell him we have a son––a powerful monster hunter trained by me.
It will take all three of us to destroy this vampire shifter. What an interesting family reunion…
Lori Handeland is a five-time nominee and two-time winner of the prestigious RITA Award from Romance Writers of America, as well as the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over sixty novels spanning the genres of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, contemporary romance, historical romance and historical fantasy.
After a quarter-century of success and accolades, she began a new chapter in her career with her women’s fiction debut, Just Once (Severn House, January 2019), which received a coveted, starred review from Library Journal and was optioned as a feature film by Catalyst Global Media.
Lori lives in Southern Wisconsin with her husband of over thirty-five years. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with their rescue mutt, Arnold, and visits from her two grown sons, awesome daughter-in-law and perfectly adorable grandchildren.