Life is going smoothly for Freya Holmes for a change. She has new partners—from the Legacy Foundation, no less—and the most pressing problem she’s facing is an infestation of ghouls in the Garden District. Hardly something to worry about. Then the unthinkable happens, and a couple is killed in their home. Right before their terrible deaths, somebody called on the phone and told them to play jazz if they didn’t want to die. The couple blew off the call, and paid the ultimate price. It seems there’s a copycat in the Big Easy, only this killer is reenacting something that happened more than a century before. It’s not the original killer, of course, or is it? Freya is determined to find out, even as the murders start piling up. Between stories from the past and fears from the present, she has her hands full. Especially when local bounty hunter Knox Cullen joins the investigative team. The one thing Knox doesn’t want is to get too close to Freya. The one thing Freya doesn’t want is an unnecessary romantic entanglement. Unfortunately for both, the more time they spend together, the more obvious it becomes that they might not have a choice in the matter. Murder is afoot in New Orleans. Will Freya become a victim or the victor at the end?
Trouble in paradise? Hali Waverly was hoping for a break, but she won’t get that lucky. A trip to a bridal expo in Orlando has Hali seeing red when a man appears out of nowhere and tries to kidnap a teenager. She reacts without thinking and manages to thwart the attempt but it’s far too close of a call. Hali assumes one fight will be all it takes, but when the man disappears, she’s left with nothing but questions. Until he shows up on St. Pete Beach and tries the same thing. Hali is outraged at his gall. There’s just one little problem. She can’t find him. He shows up when he’s on a mission and then disappears into the ether. Hali taps Gray to help her search, and the answers she gets are not what she was hoping for. It seems their current enemy might have ties to an old one, and they’re running out of time to stop him from completing his mission. St. Pete Beach is about to become even more dangerous. Hali is determined to be the one left standing in the aftermath.