Cree Black

When Lila Beauforte sees ghostly apparitions in her ancestral home in old New Orleans, Cree Black is called on to help. Cree, a Harvard-educated parapsychologist, is a “ghost buster” but one who must also struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay.

Cree is asked to help investigate a recently unearthed human skeleton—apparently a victim of the 1906 San Francicso earthquake—whose anatomical deformities have earned it the nickname Wolfman. Her research is illuminated by the 1889 diary of Lydia Schweitzer, a Victorian woman with her own secrets.