When Lila Beauforte sees ghostly apparitions in her ancestral home in old New Orleans, Cree Black is called on to help. Cree, a Harvard-educated parapsychologist, is a ghost buster but one who must also struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay.

Daniel Hecht was a professional guitarist for twenty years. He took up writing in 1989 and received his M.F.A. degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992. His first novel, Skull Session, was a best-seller. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

Anna Fields has found her true home behind the microphone after beginning her career on the stage in Washington, D.C. She has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards and won the coveted Audie Award in 2004.