{"product_id":"9781416510376","title":"Season: A Marie Laveau Mystery","description":"Jewell Parker Rhodes, who has earned legions of fans with her masterful fiction, launched her career as an award-winning novelist with \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Dreams,\u003c\/i\u003e based on the legend of New Orleans's most famous voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Season,\u003c\/i\u003e Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents a mystery set in the here and now. This is the story of Marie Levant, a great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau and a medical doctor compelled by unseen forces to relocate from Chicago to her family's native home. This is New Orleans, where the slave-holding past merges with the twenty-first century, a place where women of color are still being abused, raped, and -- even more horrifying -- rendered \"un-dead,\" zombie-like Sleeping Beauties. The Quadroon Balls of yesterday are a present reality and only Marie Levant can untangle the medical mystery. \u003cbr\u003e A smart modern-day heroine, unafraid of her sexuality, Marie Levant extends the Laveau legacy of spiritual empowerment, prophetic vision, and voodoo possession. \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Season\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh and original work of fiction that is a magical womanist tale of mystery and power.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153693196528,"sku":"9781416510376","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416510376_p0.jpg?v=1763774464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416510376","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}