Before he died, Christine Lambert’s father won a piece of eight in a poker game. How was he to know the coin was part of a puzzle that when solved revealed the location of Jean Laffite’s treasure? Now Christine must rescue her ghostly father and find the treasure before a killer beats her to it.
Matthias Blake is as out of place in New Orleans as a raven in a flock of hummingbirds. He has serious work to do, but how can he resist a lady in distress? Even if that lady can win a fight armed with only a hat pin?
As Christine and Matthias search New Orleans haunted streets, a shadowy evil watches and waits. Can they save Christine’s father or will she join him on the other side?