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    Grandmere's Secret
    Grandmere's Secret
    Grandmere's Secret
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    Grandmere's Secret

    By Valjeanne Jeffers

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    "One by one, the loa appeared and rode their human horses. The sisters watched wide eyed as a woman fell to the ground and became a serpent, as another transformed into a growling panther..."

    Grandmere Angelique was a powerful Vodoun Mambo. Her house, though ravished by Katrina, is a place of precious memories. Her granddaughters are fiercely divided over the sale of Grandmere's old mansion. But they will soon uncover a terrifying secret that will settle all debts.

    Cover art and design by Quinton Veal

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherValjeanne Jeffers
    Release dateApr 24, 2011
    ISBN9781476444864
    Grandmere's Secret
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    Valjeanne Jeffers

    Valjeanne Jeffers is a Spelman College graduate, a member of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective and the Horror Writers Association, and the author of nine books, including her Immortal and Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective series. She was been published in numerous anthologies including: Steamfunk!;The Ringing Ear; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology; Liberated Muse I: How I Freed My Soul; Say it Loud; Drumvoices Revue; Possibilities and, most recently, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (winner of the Locus Award and nominated for Hugo Award); Fitting In; Sycorax’s Daughters (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award) and Black Magic Women. Visit her at: www.vjeffersandqveal.com

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      Grandmere's Secret - Valjeanne Jeffers

      Grandmere’s Secret

      Valjeanne Jeffers

      Copyright 2010, 2011 Valjeanne Jeffers all rights reserved

      Grandmere's Secret Cover art and design by Quinton Veal

      Other titles by Valjeanne Jeffers

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      Immortal III: Stealer of Souls

      The Switch II: Clockwork (includes The Switch I and II)

      Immortal IV: Collision of Worlds

      Voyage of Dreams: A Collection of Otherworldly Short Stories

      Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective

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      Michelle, a slender, brown girl of eighteen leaned against the magnolia tree watching them. The couple got out of their car: a white man around thirty-five with windswept short blond hair and his elegant wife also in her thirties with shoulder length black hair. They looked casually rich in their designer jeans that were wrinkled in all the right places.

      They’d parked their jaguar in the driveway and now stood on the lawn envisioning, Michelle was sure, lofty possibilities for the house she’d grown up in. It was a two story sprawling wooden house with a wide porch and what used to be a swing. Before Katrina had splintered it into shards of wood that now lay tossed over the lawn and steps like broken teeth. The demon storm had destroyed the inside of the

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