Jamie Derouen's pampered life as scion of a nouveau riche New Orleans family is coming apart like the plastic beads of a Mardi Gras necklace.Ashley Turner, the man she loved, was murdered by her father, torn from her arms and taken to the swamps, the latest sacrifice to appease an angry god. A year later, Ashely has come back from the dead, horribly changed, his mind broken, and now her father has disappeared. Jamie can feel the eyes of the god looking at her, hear its laughter in the thunder of the Gulf Coast's spring storms.Can she escape her father's legacy? What will she have to give up to have a chance at a new life? Most days, David Michael is a software developer and a writer. Some days, he's a writer and a software developer. Other days, he's an amateur photographer. Because, really, who is the same person every day?David is the designer and developer of The Journal, personal journaling software for Windows. He has also designed and developed video games, and has written two nonfiction books and numerous articles about video game development.David lives with his wife and kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One year ago, during Mardi Gras, Ash Turner was pulled from the arms of his lover, Jamie Derouen, by men working for her father. Those men drove Ash into the bayou, shot him in the back of the head, and left his corpse for the alligators. So it comes as a surprise to everyone--including Ash--when he wakes up in the muddy water of the bayou and walks back into New Orleans.
