In a world where everything rests on your power and the power of the people you know, one wolf demon warrior seeks the sort of power to defeat the laws of the gods themselves. An outcast from every society save the lowest of mercenaries, the only way this warrior sees to get that kind of power is a dark and forbidden art. With only one wish in its heart, the wolf devours the souls of its enemies, hoping its sheer willpower can delay the consequences as needed. But, does our hero have such power to save it from the very path it seeks to overthrow?

The first book in a series of crime thrillers. Val Bosanquet, a former New Orleans detective, is offered a job as Chief of a campus PD. A Haitian child killer he helped convict for the murder of her mother has just been enrolled at the university. Val stumbles across new evidence. Corporate corruption and Voodoo make for a volatile mix in the Deep South.