Saints of Smoke

A desecrated chapel, a spectral speakeasy, and the bruised outskirts of the French Quarter. The year is 1977, and Roxie Rose is on a tour bus rolling straight through the heart of a supernatural storm. Each gig is a battle, and the price of fame is measured in blood, smoke, and soul.

The golden microphone Roxie carries is more than an instrument; it's a levee anchor forged in floodwater and bound by a ghostly pact. Its hum calls to the "serpents"-energy vampires that slither up from the silt of the Mississippi, hungry to feed on the light in her voice. The tour is a thirteen-stop countdown, and with every performance, the collection draws nearer.

Silas, the immortal shadow man bound to the pact, fights to protect her. But each rescue costs him years from his own borrowed time, the frost-silver at his temples a stark reminder of the toll. To save him and break the chain, Roxie must defy the Usher-a timeless collector who tallies debts in a spectral ledger-and confront the pact at its source: the kudzu-choked ruins of the original Lantern.

Hounded by Vince, the band's sleazy former manager with a lagging shadow and a cursed contract, Roxie and her band must navigate a circuit of haunted venues from St. Louis to New Orleans. With guidance from a voodoo queen and the raw power of her own refusal, Roxie will make a final stand in a ghostly echo of the past, where she must choose between becoming the pact's next sacrifice or shattering the ledger for good.

In the haze of the 1970s, where every song is a ward and every silence is a debt, Roxie Rose will prove that even when the house is haunted, the singer doesn't always have to fold.

See Roxie in action on YouTube! Just search for Roxie Rose. Each book is accompanied by a song from Roxie.