A Melungeon beauty, the sister of an old boyhood chum, comes to private eye Tony Boudreaux, hoping he can help clear her brother's name. Tony takes the case out of a sense of loyalty but has no idea that the trail will lead to the underbelly of smuggling and drugs in the seamy intrigue of New Orleans's gangland and to the man responsible for the professional execution of his young cousin several months earlier. Forced to go undercover, Tony fashions...

Davy Nelson rode into Crockett, Texas to find a bunch of carpetbaggers stealing land from honest farmers. He took this personal, since one of the farms they were trying to buy belonged to a dead friend. Although outgunned ten-to-one, he devised a plan to use the skills he learned in the Confederate Calvary to cause plenty of mischief and save the day.

Even as a child listening to the hushed, fearful stories told around dying fires of the loup garous that prowled the Louisiana prairies and ghosted through dark swamps, Tony Boudreaux always viewed them with the skepticism of an enlightened individual. Cauchemars turning living creatures, both human and animal, into supernatural beings was the fodder of middle age ignorance. But when the body of a prominent banker is discovered in the belly of a sixteen-foot...