Saints of Smoke

<p>A desecrated chapel a spectral speakeasy and the bruised outskirts of the French Quarter. The year is 1977 and Roxie Rose is on a tour bus rolling straight through the heart of a supernatural storm. Each gig is a battle and the price of fame is measured in blood smoke and soul.</p><p>The golden microphone Roxie carries is more than an instrument; it's a levee anchor forged in floodwater and bound by a ghostly pact. Its hum calls to the serpents-energy vampires that slither up from the silt of the Mississippi hungry to feed on the light in her voice. The tour is a thirteen-stop countdown and with every performance the collection draws nearer.</p><p>Silas the immortal shadow man bound to the pact fights to protect her. But each rescue costs him years from his own borrowed time the frost-silver at his temples a stark reminder of the toll. To save him and break the chain Roxie must defy the Usher-a timeless collector who tallies debts in a spectral ledger-and confront the pact at its source: the kudzu-choked ruins of the original Lantern.</p><p>Hounded by Vince the band's sleazy former manager with a lagging shadow and a cursed contract Roxie and her band must navigate a circuit of haunted venues from St. Louis to New Orleans. With guidance from a voodoo queen and the raw power of her own refusal Roxie will make a final stand in a ghostly echo of the past where she must choose between becoming the pact's next sacrifice or shattering the ledger for good.</p><p>In the haze of the 1970s where every song is a ward and every silence is a debt Roxie Rose will prove that even when the house is haunted the singer doesn't always have to fold.</p><p><strong>See Roxie in action on YouTube! Just search for Roxie Rose. Each book is accompanied by a song from Roxie.</strong></p>