Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Series: Sentinels of New Orleans #1 Publication Date: 10 April 2012 Description:
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. DJ's 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 Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering soldiers sent to help the city recover. To make it worse, Gerald St. Simon 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. The search for Gerry and the killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.Source of Description info was taken from http://www.goodreads.com/series/65253-sentinels-of-new-orleans on 07/09/2011.
I have my eye on this one too :)
ReplyDeleteOh I have to say I like the looks and sounds of this one too. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda hoping that this book would arrive at the secondhand market soon :)
ReplyDeleteOh how cool. And I love that it takes place during some in our recent history. FAB pick.
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