Böcker av Brenda McComb

Eight minutes after entering the bank, and after locking the three tellers and manager inside the vault, and hitting the silent alarm button, the couple exited the building. They stepped out onto the sidewalk, the man turned left, and the woman turned right. They each calmly walked three blocks and watched as two, and then three more, police cruisers screeched to a halt with lights flashing and sirens screaming. The man removed a walkie-talkie from his back pocket and spoke into it, saying only one word, "Go."

Chloe Chantel is an artist who lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans and is descended from a long line of Voodoo Queens. She is approached by a stranger who makes an odd request. The man offers to pay Chloe $50,000 to paint a self-portrait. After Chloe agrees, her most famous ancestor comes to her in a dream and reveals the stranger's ulterior motive. When Chloe completes the portrait, she is again hounded by the handsome Adrien Simpkin, a homicide detective with the NOPD. Chloe realizes she will have to use all the powers that she inherited from her ancestors if she hopes to survive the strangers evil plot, and to escape Detective Simpkin's efforts to have her prosecuted for the murders of three missing wealthy men.

J'nell and one of her partners, Major Lampton, defend her childhood friend, Qujette Barbarette, against the charge of murder. In the process, another client is freed of a murder charge, and they uncover a murder for hire plot that pits sons against their mother. She sees her old friend, Senator Freddy Breaux retire from the US Senate, and her best friend, George Allen Lange, win that vacated seat. J'nell Montalvo Johnson Rushing, had always believed she was in control of her life. That notion is challenged when she is blindsided by three of her legal partners; the three she trusted above all others; when they reveal to her their affiliation with Felix Petijean', the reputed head of the Louisiana Syndicate. What he reveals to her is almost impossible to accept. The hardest part is the knowledge her parents, several of her partner's and her best friend, have all been a part of the deception. J'nell suffers the loss of many of her older loved ones, and in the process is reunited with an old flame. It is then that she realizes her life had come full circle. J'nell sees all four of her children married and making her a grandmother. She continues to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. In the process, she takes on several large corporations, and to her mother's chagrin, the Catholic Church. Upon her retirement, she surprises her family and the legal world with a best-selling novel that eventually becomes a major mini-series. Her success is soured when the granddaughter of an old nemesis sues her for slander. Through it all, J'nell never loses her faith in God and gives all the glory to HIM. In her golden years, J'nell reflects on her many accomplishments, all the people who floated in and out of her life, the many lifelong friendships she made, and the fact she had few regrets about her life. At the end, she is happy to know she will be reunited with all those loved ones who went before her.