The Ivory Serpent

New Orleans, 1930s—where jazz drips like honey through the humid night and shadows whisper with the voices of spirits.

Evelyn Harker, an English anthropologist, arrives to study Vodou with a detached academic eye. But when a midnight ceremony in the swamp binds her to the goddess Erzulie-Damballa, her careful world unravels. The bite of a sacred serpent awakens powers that blur the line between passion and possession.

Lucien Duval, a charismatic Vodou priest, feels both drawn to and terrified of Evelyn. As her senses sharpen and the goddess within her stirs, desire binds them together even as fate pulls them apart. Every embrace feeds the divine presence threatening to consume her humanity.

But the city itself is at war: Henriette Duval, Lucien’s powerful aunt, warns of the cost of surrender, while Inspector Marcel Giroux—obsessed with stamping out “primitive” rituals—closes in, willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way.

When Evelyn discovers her family’s colonial past entwined with the goddess’s vengeance, she realizes her destiny was sealed long before she set foot in New Orleans. Love, death, and divinity collide in a fever-dream climax where one woman must choose: cling to her fading humanity—or embrace the serpent goddess reborn.

Perfect for readers of Gothic horror, supernatural romance, and occult thrillers, The Ivory Serpent is a lush, atmospheric tale of forbidden desire, dangerous power, and the myths that never die.