The Chronicles of Touperdu

The Newcomers: The Chronicles of Touperdu, Book I, is now available at:

1880. As immigrants flee the violence and upheaval of the post-Reconstruction South, whispers spread of a distant refuge — a place where reinvention is possible, and the past can be left behind.

For New Orleans chef Amadeo Roselyn, Touperdu promises freedom: a chance to build a restaurant of his own and secure a safer future for his daughters. For Gwennoelle Duday, formidable matriarch of a disorderly lineage of witches, it offers something even rarer — a place beyond scrutiny, where power need not be hidden or restrained.

But on the eve of their arrival — one in first class, the other in steerage — both are seized by the same unsettling throught: What if Touperdu is not what it claims to be?

On this isolated island, where superstition and magic intertwine, every promise carries a shadow — and every arrival comes at a cost.

The Newcomers is the first novel in The Chronicles of Touperdu, a sweeping saga of ambition, inheritance, and the perious lure of starting over.

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