Broken Cove

Lured to New Orleans, five friends discover their ancestries are linked to ancient pirates, assassins, and voodoo priestesses 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...
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Lured to New Orleans, five friends discover their ancestries are linked to ancient pirates, assassins, and voodoo priestesses 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, not a game. Their survival and stopping a modern genocide force them to find the Voodoo Priestess's three century old hidden path: one protected by superstition, secrecy, and a brilliant scientist's creation: Demons' Breath. 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. 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. 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 a nightmare which follows them home to Portland. A heinous drug lord orders the infiltration of their homes and the country club, spying on them; hoping they reveal the treasure' location. Foreign intelligence agency's curiosity of the Palisades grows as organized crime intensifies their focus on Portland. Their excursions throughout the Caribbean uncover the Voodoo Priestess's secret path to untold wealth, a new world threat, and the Palisade Priestess.