The Dead Don't Gossip

It's spring 1997, nineteen-year-old Cairo Beauvais is a master of the hustle. Between off-Broadway auditions and slaying creatures that go bump in the Bayou, Cairo's never missed a rent check. But when a job in Baton Rouge turns into a bloodbath, Cairo is tasked to go to Lafayette as a glorified babysitter for a restless sixteen-year-old socialite.

At the same time, Roman Delacroix, a nineteen-year-old reanimated corpse, is trying desperately not to exist. Resurrected under circumstances he doesn't fully understand, Roman keeps a low profile by renting a room in a boarding house. He applies for a night watchman job at the Port of New Orleans and attempts to be normal, but all that collapses the night he hears screams coming from the Devereux estate.

Against his better judgment, Roman intervenes - drawing Cairo into his orbit and entangling them both in the Devereux family's secrets. Don't get them wrong; the last thing they want is to help people fix their mistakes. But as the house begins to reveal what it was built to contain, exposing the truth may be the only way either of them walks away with their body - and dignity - intact.