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KARMICVILLE: Secrets of the Acadian Land of Nod
by Valeri Caronna
Under the swamps of Louisiana, where the cypress roots twist into tunnels older than memory, a hidden world waits.
Kevin Dupré thought he was just building a dock.
The Caronna Richardson Dock was meant to be neutral ground-a place where anyone could trade without fighting. But when strange boats begin arriving from the mist and creatures from forgotten kingdoms step onto the planks, Kevin discovers the truth: the swamp sits on top of something much bigger.
Beneath the mud and moss lies the Land of Nod-a sprawling underground crossroads where frogs rule hidden courts, gummy creatures guard ancient tunnels, pirate ghosts ride spectral trains, and yellow brick passages lead toward places that should only exist in stories.
When a powerful Creole witch begins opening lost tunnels and feeding the kingdoms a magic that turns hunger into addiction, the fragile balance of the underworld begins to collapse. Old treaties awaken. Ancient spirits stir. And Kevin finds himself at the center of a war he never asked for.
His only weapon?
A boiling pot of crawfish, a stubborn belief that nobody should go hungry, and a dock built on one rule:
Neutral ground.
But in the Land of Nod, every crossroads leads somewhere dangerous.
And some hungers are older than the swamp itself.