Toussaint Louisianna
MIRA
November 2006
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Featuring: Annie Duhon; Max Savage
352 pages ISBN: 0778323587 EAN: 9780778323587 Hardcover Add to Wish List
When Max Savage opens his practice in a remote, seductively beautiful bayou town, he hopes it's the start of a new life. He's got his reputation as a skilled surgeon, his two brothers by his side and a fresh chance here in the sultry heat of Toussaint. But soon Max discovers he can't escape a past riddled with accusations of murder... or the faces of two dead women. Especially since another woman is missing, and he was the last person to see her alive.
ALWAYS SUSPECTED
Annie Duhon knows all about nightmares that shatter life's dreams and the need to escape the past. But her fascination with Max grows, even when disturbing rumors start to surface and her darkest visions seem to play out in living color. Can she trust Max with her secrets and her deepest desires? Or is he the specter she sees when she sleeps -- a killer stalking women with his cleansing fire? Is she about to become his next victim?
MARKED FOR DEATH
The object of obsessive hatred, Max is a marked man who has unwittingly attracted danger to anyone he's cared about. Now he loves Annie, and knows with chilling certainty that he faces one last chance to unmask a killer before there's nothing left to fight for.
Dear Reader:
If I delve much deeper into the world of voodoo, hoodoo, Marie Laveau and the power of the gris-gris, someone will have to organize an intervention!
In A MARKED MAN, two woman have loved Max Savageโand died--snatched from life and found in bizarre, ritualistic states. Max was the last man to see either victim alive. There was insufficient evidence to convict him of any crime.
What would you do if you were Annie Duhon, manager of Pappyโs Dancehall in Toussaint, Louisiana and you met a renowned plastic surgeon (Max Savage) who showed interest in you? Imagine your past is studded with hard knocks, your ego is shriveled, and this charismatic man shows up most days just to eat lunch with you. Then add the mystery of why Max would choose to open a clinic in the areaโan isolated and unlikely place for him to relocate.
And if that isnโt bad enough, you learn (as Annie does) about Maxโs past when another woman disappears. Again, Max is the last person to see the potential victim alive. Would you be tempted to run from a man who is likely a killer?
Max Savage is angry. He cannot stop the rumors about him, and the disappearance of a therapist he interviewed for his new clinic may stop his plans for practice just outside Toussaint. He chose the area because it is remote.
This surgeon hovers between staying to fight, and getting away from people who are becoming important to him. Public interference from some who have judged him guilty turns violent. And fear in the eyes of new acquaintances pushes Max closer to walking away from his plans.
Besieged by dreadful nightmares, Annie sees death. Something big is afoot in the Bayou. Bigger than, but related to the crimes Max Savage is accused of. Attention from a voodoo practitioner who claims she sees Annieโs future, as well-meaning as it seems, doesnโt pump up her confidence. And evidence that her fate may be in the hands of another leads to impulsive actionโand its consequences.
You, my readers, are invited on the journey to . . . to whatever awaits you!
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