Ashes of Eden

In the bayou heat of St. Gabriel Parish, the Goozee family's crumbling plantation manor becomes the stage for a decades-old sin. When Hurricane Celeste rips the roof from the ancestral home, it exposes not wind damage, but a hidden vault containing a will that rewrites history. As insurance investigator Hollis Thibodeaux digs into State Farm's denial of the claim, he uncovers a web of slave-trade profits, a murdered patriarch, and a curse that passes through blood like poison. Every deposition, every faded photograph, every whispered confession leads him deeper into a labyrinth where the guilty and the innocent wear the same face—until he realizes the man he's hunting has been staring back from the mirror all along.