When otherworldly visions end Lex Herren’s ballet career, she returns to Louisiana and reluctantly accepts a choreographer position at a haunted theatre in New Orleans. Upon meeting the cast, her nightmares sharpen into vivid past-life memories of a royal wedding and a murder—her own, as Queen Marguerite of Burgundy. Her production’s leading man, Luca St. James, and brooding co-star, Philip Aucoin, stir recognition as King Louis X of France—her former husband—and the loyal knight who once died for her secrets.
As history bleeds into the present and her parents are framed for murder, Lex unearths a medieval Templar curse binding her soul to Luca and his estranged father, Win Marchande—a charismatic millionaire whose alligator farm empire conceals something far more sinister. Win may be an infamous vampire reborn—and the storm of the century is coming. As Hurricane Katrina looms, Lex must unlock her dormant gift for time travel, navigate a fated love triangle, and break the chains of a hex binding her to evil across centuries. How far will she go to stop her dark legacy from repeating?
DRAGONBACK is the first in a planned trilogy where empowered women’s voices rise at the intersection of identity, inherited trauma, historical hauntings, and Southern folklore.
