Beck Goodman travels to New Orleans to experience the wild festivities of Mardi Gras with five of his thrill-seeking friends. Amid their excursions into the French Quarter and the bayou beyond the Crescent City, one of their number dies. Emotions run high. Fingers are pointed. Bonds are strained. Beck spirals into delirium and his friends question his sanity. Days pass and relations erode until the unthinkable happens. Beck realizes he must unravel the dark history behind his strange behavior or become another nameless victim in a city that doesn’t care. As Beck delves deeper into the shadows of New Orleans and teeters on the brink of madness, he discovers that New Orleans Voodoo may hold his cure. Will Seraphine Delacroix, the Voodoo Queen, and her witchcraft save him? Or push his friends over the edge?