Some Saints Prey

Madeline Donovan has just completed her case at Belle Magnolia in New Orleans and seeks a respite from her position as amateur female detective. When Emily Montgomery extends to Madeline an invitation to her home in St. Augustine, she happily accepts. But even on the train ride, she suspects this will not be a peaceful visit as Emily tells her of the mysterious disappearance of two men and their relationship to the city's notorious woman, Emma St. Fleur. The affluent Miss Emma is known not only for her beauty but her precocious nature which taunts all the eligible males in town. But now the city is hovering over her for a different reason, they want to know if she is somehow connected to the missing men. Madeline is intrigued and soon finds herself, along with the bewitchingly handsome Oliver Mandrake, setting off to investigate what happened. She finds the city reluctant to tell her any plain truth and wonders what secrets are shared by so many and what it means. Soon she will discover such strange events that even her reporter friend, Jonathan Franks, from the New York Times will find the story newsworthy and shocking.