Publisher's Synopsis
Lured to New Orleans, five friends discover their ancestries are linked to ancient pirates, assassins, and a voodoo priestess who fought against their people's genocide and stole a treasure for the ages. Billions in gold and gems; but also, items of immense importance.
The Five Palisades learn how a voodoo priestess merged mysticism and science to defend themselves as well as reveal ancient crimes and corruption, which still worm through today's society.
Drugged and kidnapped on their odyssey's first night, they discover its life or death for them, not a game. Their survival and stopping a modern genocide force them to find the Voodoo Priestess's centuries old hidden path: one protected by superstition, secrecy, and a brilliant scientist's creation.
Val de Faria published a book, went bankrupt, and won the diminished weekend lottery drawing; not the billion-dollar drawing three days earlier. Starting with four holes of golf behind his newly built mansion, it quickly morphed into an 18-hole championship golf course featuring a Pastafarian restaurant, Pasta-de-faria's. Needing help to run his sprawling enterprise, he hired a talented First Nation's administrator, Tayen, who tempered his wild ideas into a manageable golf complex. Tayen hired a wily old electronics guy, Scott; a highly gifted, quirky, and sassy Latina, Charlotte; and a directionless, shy, black young lady, Lilith.
Enticed to a small business convention in New Orleans, the unsuspecting five set in motion centuries old forces who fight for, and against, the ideals of the Voodoo Priestess. Fitted in her company's clothing line, Lilith attractions attention, and confirms suspicions, that she and her friends are the Voodoo Priestess's heirs to the fortune. Inexplicable deaths, executions, kidnappings, thievery, zombies, pirate tales; hallmarks of a dark supernatural occurrence ensnare the Five Palisades into an inescapable journey. New Orleans becomes an instant nightmare which follows them home to Portland Oregon.
A heinous drug lord orders the infiltration of their homes and the country club, spying on them; hoping they reveal the location of a hidden treasure. Foreign intelligence agency's curiosity of the Five Palisades grows as organized crime intensifies their focus on Portland. The Five Palisade's excursions throughout the Caribbean uncover the tools needed to find the Voodoo Priestess's secret path to untold wealth, a new world threat, and the legendary heroine protector, Jade Péchette, the Palisade Priestess.
