The Quarter queen : a novel
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Ballantine Books, [2026]
Physical Description
364 pages : map ; 24 cm
Summary
"New Orleans, 1846: The reigning Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau, feared by her enemies and followers alike. Her daughter, Marie "Ree" Laveau the Second, is everything her cutthroat and principled queen is not--spoiled and entitled, with a wickedly rebellious streak--and defies her mother at every turn. But Ree's world is turned upside down when she finds Marie comatose in the bayou, cursed by exiled Voodoo king Jon the Conjurer--Marie's former teacher and lover, and her greatest enemy. As Marie hovers on the brink of death, Ree races to uncover the secrets of her mother's life in search of a cure and gradually reveals a web of alliances, dangers, and deception. What's worse, Henryk Broussard, Ree's long-missing childhood best friend, returns as a witch hunter of the Church, tasked with investigating her. With so many enemies circling, including a puritanical brotherhood of alchemists and the slave-holding mayor of the city, Ree must confront the past and face her mother's demons that have now become her own--or die trying." -- Dust jacket