Dead Easy

Book excerpt: As a New Orleans’ native, twenty-year-old Jessie Kilpatrick is accustomed to drunken tourists, spooky backstreets and strange happenings. When her friend, Lisa, is murdered, Jessie fears a killer has made the Big Easy their personal hunting ground. After a chance encounter with Sayer Arceneaux, the self-entitled son of a powerful attorney, Jessie unwittingly becomes his alibi for the murder. Even she begins to question Sayer's innocence when Lisa’s half-sister is killed, a donor sibling conceived through a fertility clinic owned by his unscrupulous uncle. Is it just coincidence, or is there a darker motive for the ritualistic crimes? As the cops try to pin the deaths on Sayer, it’s up to Jessie to find the real killer. But revealing the truth will uncover secrets buried deep within both their families, secrets someone will do anything to keep hidden.