The Black Magnolia Society

Five women made a desperate pact to protect Natchez during the darkest days of the Civil War. More than a century later, the debt has come due.After the death of her husband, Angelique Landry inherits his family's crumbling estate and moves into the guest house with her four-year-old daughter, Lila. Her plan is simple: restore the antebellum mansion and transform it into a beautiful bed-and-breakfast.But the Landry house has never truly been empty.Lila sees a little boy no one else can see. An antique mirror reveals more than reflections. And beneath the estate, something ancient is reaching through the roots of the past.Angelique soon discovers that her husband's family is connected to the Black Magnolia Society-five women whose attempt to save their city in 1864 left them immortal, imprisoned, and bound to a terrible secret. Now the Society's ruthless leader has set her sights on Lila, whose unusual gift may be powerful enough to break the curse...or complete it.To protect her daughter, Angelique must uncover the truth about the Landry bloodline, the ghosts who still guard the estate, and the evil that has waited generations for its chance to rise.The Black Magnolia Society Trilogy contains all three complete Southern Gothic paranormal thrillers:The Unchanging MirrorThe House of Unburied MenThe First RootStep into haunted Natchez, where old houses remember, the dead still speak, and no promise remains buried forever.