But this story galvanized me, even through my despair.
I wrote this book months before the events in our recent past, and it’s sadly unsurprising how understandable Celine’s reaction is, even now.
Celine fights back when a young man assaults her, and flees her home because she knows no one will believe her. At the onset of the book, a specter of worry and shame hovers over her head. She’s loud and brash, but also tempered by fear and the need to fit into society. She’s the most like me of any character I’ve ever written. At how this mounting toxicity is affecting women and marginalized people from all walks of life. When I first began crafting Celine’s story, I poured all my rage at the current political situation into her character. Your protagonist, Celine, flees from Paris to New Orleans.
As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the surface.” and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose - one Celine is sure has set her in his sights. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sèbastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sèbastien Saint Germain. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and - especially - to the danger. But to 17-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Here’s the book’s official synopsis: “In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead.
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