Beneath Beauford Grove

"A spellbinding novel with a haunting atmosphere that sets the stage for a creatively imagined plot, unlike anything I have read before." - Readers' Favorite
 
"... mysticism and science... intertwine... tension keeps its taut grip on the reader throughout this Southern Gothic beauty." - Reader Views

The curse flows through her veins, but so does the cure.

Dr. Evangeline Beauford has spent eighteen years studying blood's secrets in Boston—anything to avoid returning to Beauford Grove. But when her estranged sister's posthumous letter arrives, she has no choice.

The family's olive plantation shouldn't exist in Alabama soil. The ancient trees shouldn't weep crimson sap. And Evangeline's own blood work reveals impossible anomalies her scientific mind can't explain.

Hidden in the grove, she discovers the truth her mother died protecting: their family's unnatural prosperity was forged through a sinister pact between French colonists and enslaved practitioners of African and Haitian magic. Both bloodlines were bound to the land through rituals paid in blood.

Now the pact is demanding its due.

Evangeline must confront the dark legacy woven into her DNA and the dormant power awakening inside her. Her medical expertise may hold the key to breaking the cycle—or become the final sacrifice it demands.
 
For fans of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic, and Tananarive Due's The Good House.