Not every ghost is dead. For Gregor Lepov, quarantine was never more agonizing than the day his ex-wife walked into his office. With a new husband at her side and a plea for help on her lips, the former Gloria Lepov hires Gregor to hunt down a stolen artifact on a trail littered with the dead. Haunted by her betrayals of the past, he determines to solve her case then throw her off his world before she ruins him a second time. Lilly Stewart has mysteriously chosen to give up her lucrative antiquities business to stay with Lepov in the Lazaretto. Bedeviled by the arrival of his ex-wife, she will perform her own exorcism of the dead husband she betrayed. Homicide Detective Ed MacNally, heading home after a typical day on the job, steps into a bar for a drink and watches two gangsters rough up a bartender. In the time it takes to stand to his feet, he is forced into a gunfight that leaves both gangsters dead. But his fight has just begun. Bent on avenging the death of his brother, one of the most prominent criminals in the Euxine system sets out to make MacNally pay with his life. Abandoned by his fellow detectives, the aging detective's only option is to run. But in quarantine, souls can never hide from their ghosts, their regrets, or the consequences of their worst and best intentions. And when they stop running and turn to face them, Gregor and his friends will pay the cost of betrayal with sorrow, violence and vengeance in a war waged by the gangsters, heroes, angels and traitors who inhabit a unique and dreadful little hell called the Lazaretto.
About the Author: Jason Phillip Reeser, having the spent the first half of his life traversing state lines in a nomadic life that covered ground from the snow-covered forests of Michigan to the sun-bleached sands of Florida, now lives and writes in Westlake, Louisiana. His ghost story anthology, Cities of the Dead, which Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane called "a twist of Louisiana Gothic," is set in the cemeteries of New Orleans. He recently published Room With Paris View, a travel memoir with his wife, poet Jennifer Reeser. His short stories have appeared in such publications as The Louisiana Review, Bewildering Stories, and Danse Macabre. The Lake Charles American Press says Reeser is "a skilled and entertaining Louisiana storyteller."