I'm thrilled to introduce you today to a new Urban Fantasy series. I hope you enjoy reading more about The Sentinels of New Orleans series below!
Royal
Street
Sentinels of New
Orleans Book One
Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 978-0765327796
ASIN: B006OM459U
Number of pages: 337
Word Count: approx. 94,000
Cover Artist: Cliff Nielsen
Book
Description:
As the junior wizard sentinel for New
Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion-mixing and
pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and
lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard
tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over
from the preternatural beyond.
Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New
Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.
While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the
modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now the undead and the restless are
roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering
soldiers sent to help the city recover.
To make it worse, Gerald St. Simon has
gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as
DJ's new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his
plank. The search for Gerry and the killer turns personal when DJ learns the
hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest
places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter roux.
River
Road
Sentinels of New Orleans, Book 2
Suzanne Johnson
Suzanne Johnson
Genre:
Urban Fantasy
Publisher:
Tor Books
ISBN:
978-0765327802
ASIN:
B00842H5VI
Number
of pages: 336
Word
Count: approx. 92,000
Cover
Artist: Cliff Nielsen
Book Description:
Hurricane
Katrina is long gone, but the preternatural storm rages on in New Orleans. New
species from the Beyond moved into Louisiana after the hurricane destroyed the
borders between worlds, and it falls to wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco and her
partner, Alex Warin, to keep the preternaturals peaceful and the humans
unaware. But a war is brewing between two clans of Cajun merpeople in
Plaquemines Parish, and down in the swamp, DJ learns, there’s more stirring
than angry mermen and the threat of a were-gator.
Wizards
are dying, and something—or someone—from the Beyond is poisoning the waters of
the mighty Mississippi, threatening the humans who live and work along the
river. DJ and Alex must figure out what unearthly source is contaminating the
water and who—or what—is killing the wizards. Is it a malcontented merman, the
naughty nymph, or some other critter altogether? After all, DJ’s undead suitor,
the pirate Jean Lafitte, knows his way around a body or two.
It’s
anything but smooth sailing on the bayou as the Sentinels of New Orleans series
continues.
About the Author:
Suzanne
Johnson writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance from Auburn, Alabama, after
a career in educational publishing that has spanned five states and six
universities. She grew up halfway between the Bear Bryant Museum and
Elvis' birthplace and lived in New Orleans for fifteen years, so she has a
highly refined sense of the absurd and an ingrained love of SEC football and
fried gator on a stick.
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I love this series! Thanks for posting about it. I wish more would catch on to the awesome that is Ms. Johnson. :D
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