Bayou Heat

As Hurricane Gladys Bears Down On Shadow Bayou Fontaine Varney’S Ex-Husband Lusty Porn Star Travis Coltrane Is Shot To Death In A Fishing Boat Near Maison Fontaine The Luxury Hotel Fontaine Owns. Coltrane’S Reputation For Chasing Anything That Catches His Eye Male Or Female Makes Him Ripe For Killing. The List Of People With Motives For Murdering The Bayou Stud Is As Long As A Gator’S Tail. Among The List Of Suspects Is Travis’S Widow Fontaine’S Mother Who Spitefully Married Travis Before The Ink Dried On The Papers Nullifying His Marriage To Her Daughter. Football-Hero-Turned-Private-Eye Ace Chapelle Is Hired By Fontaine’S Wealthy Father To Protect Her. Ace Is Just Too Handsome Too Cocky And Too Blatantly Sexy For Fontaine’S Taste. Fontaine Cannot Ignore Her Attraction To The Roguish Jock But Instinct Warns He Is A Dangerous Man. Meanwhile She Is Equally Drawn To The Bayou’S Handsome And Charming New Doctor Dan Birdsong A Far More Fitting Mate For A Creole Princess; However The Young Physician Clearly Has A Past He Wants Left Undisturbed. Sheriff Cheyne Delacroix’S Investigation Leads Him From The Bayou Into The Fleshpots Of New Orleans Where He Finds A Spicy Gumbo Of Suspects Most Of Whom Voice The Opinion That Coltrane Wasn’T Worth Killing…Yet Somebody Violently Murdered Him. Suspicions Of Blackmail Rumors Of Illicit Affairs And Stories Of Past Killings Simmer In The Sultry Heat Of Shadow Bayou’S Dark Murky Waters When Without Warning An Attempt Is Made On Fontaine’S Life. Tension And Tempers Rise Heightening The Fears Of The Stranded Inhabitants Of Maison Fontaine As The Storm Approaches And The Identity Of The Killer Remains Unknown. At The Peak Of The Storm’S Fury Yet Another Murder Is Committed. A Terrified Fontaine Realizes Most Of The People Surrounding Her Harbor Secrets Secret Lives And Hidden Agendas.