Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's WoW is

ROYAL STREET(SENTINELS OF NEW ORLEANS #1)

As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.

Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.

While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering soldiers sent to help the city recover.

To make it worse, Gerald St. Simon has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and the killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.(From GoodReads

Author Suzanne Johnson runs one of my favorite blogs, Preternatura. It's a fabulous blog with great review, a great book club, and, let's face it, fantastic giveaways.  When I found out she had written ROYAL STREET, I was so excited.
As someone who lived in Louisiana during the time of Hurricane Katrina, I am so curious to read Johnson's "supernatural" take on the aftermath of that turbulent time. I am supposed to receive a review copy of ROYAL STREET and I can't wait!

Paperback, 336 pages

Expected publication: April 10th 2012 by Tor Books

 

You can find ROYAL STREET at GoodReads.