Heather is just six years old. Her parents are rich and she is incredibly spoilt. Her life was great. That is until a familiar face hands her a group of balloons tied together with some string.

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.