Following the events in Cajun Fire, Marc Delaterre has barely survived the havoc of the Civil War in south Louisiana. Now he begins experiencing the evils of Reconstruction. His son Duc has joined the Knights of the White Camellia. This clandestine organization targets carpetbaggers and the hapless freedmen who have become political pawns in the hands of the hated Republicans.

Duc, as a Knight, is involved in the acts of brutality, especially against the freedmen. In doing so, he discovers in himself a flaw so terrible that he cannot tell anyone, nor live with it. Marc, learning of his son’s actions, is horrified and decides to root out the evil in the boy. In trying to help his son, Marc reveals information to him that slowly begins to destroy Duc.

Acknowledgement

The cover picture shows the ruins of The Cottage. This plantation home, built in 1825 along the River Road south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was destroyed by fire in 1960. These ruins, now protected as an historical site, belong to the Bailey family of Baton Rouge. They have graciously consented to the use of this photo to set the tone for the novel.

Marc Delaterre comes to Louisiana from France in 1848 believing that the accumulation of material wealth will give him the independence he never had in his own country. After exhaustive struggles against the fevers and heat of South Louisiana, and against his sworn enemy, his father-in-law, he wrests himself a plantation to begin his fight toward independence.

Facing him is Louisiana’s move toward secession, which he strongly opposes. When the war ultimately comes to the bayou country, he does what he has to do to protect his plantation from its ravages. He collaborates with the enemy and arms his ex-slaves to defend themselves from a marauding lawless element, the jay hawkers.

In the final, tumultuous month of the Civil War, when all is in chaos around him, when he thinks he has safely guided his plantation through the destructions of the war, he has to make a desperate choice when he faces the jay hawkers to settle a blood feud.

From the moment the Acadian exile, Henri Pitre, learns that England and Spain are at war, vengeance begins to consume him. Memories of his family’s forced deportation from Acadie by the British in 1755 reawaken the pain of the loss of his mother and younger brother and kindle his desire for retribution.

His Louisiana militia unit, the Opelousas Post, is ordered to join the Spanish Governor-General, Bernardo de Galvez, who, with his small army, is engaged in a desperate gamble to surprise and attack the British forces at Baton Rouge. The men of the Opelousas Post fight their way through the flooded Atchafalaya swamp, surging bayous, and poisonous snakes in the torrid heat of a Louisiana summer to rendezvous on time with Galvez.

Once there, and facing the hated English, Henri has to come to terms with a betrayal and a sacred promise he had made to his dying father.

Dad's decision to go camping late in the season leaves Winnie and Jerry with nothing to do but bicker and annoy each other. But when Winnie storms off in anger, she accidentally rescues a real live troll! All their moonstones were stolen, and they need Winnie's help to get their magic back!

Winnie and Jerry start off on a whirling adventure with their new friends, Oola and Humphry, and encounter new dangers with each step of their journey. Even if they find the treasure, how will they get home?

We’re not troublemakers. We’re trouble finders.

Step into a world where shadows hold secrets and cryptids rule the night. Ruby's dream of exhilarating adventures takes a spine-chilling twist when she becomes an apprentice at The Goodnight Agency. But the supernatural underworld she thought she knew proves far more treacherous—and thrilling—than she ever imagined.

Goodnight is a hub for all things enigmatic and bizarre, a haven for creatures straight out of tabloid tales. Yet, as Ruby soon learns, mysteries are not merely stories. When an innocent old woman narrowly escapes murder, Ruby becomes a suspect .

Amidst the chaos, Ruby finds herself entangled with the Skohlars, a clandestine race of intelligent rats, entrusted with secrets potent enough to reshape reality itself. And as if that's not enough, a group of kidnapped Sasquatches unravels a feud among The Scene's own Guardians, leaving the agency in a perilous struggle.

The Long Goodnight is a pulse-pounding adventure where friendships are tested, mythical creatures come to life, and the line between reality and fantasy blurs.

Sometimes, you just have to do things yourself... IF you don't get eaten by an invisible monster first.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Park is a handful. With her parents in prison, she's tossed between her relatives like a hot potato, finally ending up with her weird uncle, Simon Goodnight. Determined to get along with her last relative who can stand her and isn't locked up, Ruby nonetheless can't resist snooping into her uncle's mysterious business and its anonymous clients. Is it a detective agency, or...?

Ruby soon learns those clients are bizarre creatures who can't go out in public to do their own business. She thought she was a misfit, but these people make her look downright normal by comparison. And hey, for the first time ever, she can actually be helpful!

She should've known this couldn't last, though. When Simon is arrested for murder, it's up to her and her crew of oddball friends and minions to clear her uncle's name, and do it faster than a caffeinated cheetah, or her newfound happy home will go up in smoke.

But the deeper she digs, the more complications she uncovers. Can she rescue Simon while keeping his clients' secrets, and not start a war or become a monster's snack? With the help of her friends, a bit of snark, a lot of wit, and a crusader's sense of justice, Ruby's madcap navigation of these rocky waters will leave you grinning from ear to ear.