title: Grave Intent: Novel
author:  Deborah LeBlanc 
description: While emerging novelist LeBlanc's second chiller returns to south-central Louisiana (her own stomping ground and the setting for 2003's <I>Family Inheritance</I>), the story is flavored this time not by the author's familiarity with Cajun culture but by another aspect of her personal background: funeral management consultation. During a chaotic gypsy burial service at the funeral parlor of Michael and Janet Savoy, a ritual gold coin is stolen from the corpse of the teenage daughter of an egomaniacal Roma gypsy chief. The theft unleashes a curse on the Savoys, unwitting unbelievers who come to realize their own five-year-old child is doomed to a gruesome death if they can't unravel a foreign culture's arcane mysteries in time to return the coin "before rising of second sun [sic]." Funeral industry scenes that are vividly detailed down to the last drop of embalming fluid make the plot's unreal supernatural situations seem equally believable. But regrettably, except in a moody but brief prologue, the Roma characters (and their culture) remain undeveloped. The curse, therefore, is less compelling than merely creepy&mdash;and confusing: a mysteriously unmotivated, if unrelenting, barrage of monsters and walking dead. </I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  CISERO
  
  
  
  
  
  By Shantel Davis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  Copyright © 2019 by Shantel Davis All rights reserved. No part of this
  publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise
  without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this
  book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without
  permission. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters
  and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is
  entirely coincidental
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Hi, again! I present to you all, Cisero.
  
  
  
  
  
  This is sorta like a personal project. I was writing “Demarco” when this story
  came to me and I ignored it, but Justice kept popping up in my head and
  wouldn’t leave me alon