"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion mixing and pixie retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. Her boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond. Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters. While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the other world crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover. Making matters worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ's new partner and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank.