I’ve been tucked away in the bayou for years keeping my existence a secret from the world. Staying away from the supernatural world and all that it entitles. Only coming out of the bayou to hunt down information on this curse. I creeped in the shadows of the night keeping my face and name hidden. I was scared of opening myself up to all the things the supernatural world entitled. Though that all changed when I had Ellie. She was my perfect angel, my light in this darkness. Now that she’s here I have to try harder, I have to bring down this curse that has sealed my whole family’s fate for generations. I would do anything to succeed. I had no choice but to be victorious because if I wasn’t my loved ones would die. So I would fight shedding blood and tears. I would rip through every enemy that stood in my way to get my answers, until this curse was broken. Fighting the guilt, the fear, the worry, and all the pain that was to come. I will break this curse no matter what the consequences are. Even though the enemy linked my life to the very son of the man who cursed me. Then discovering this man was actually my soulmate. Now I truly love this man but I love my daughter even more. I would set fire to this earth to save her and I might just have to, at least New Orleans.
Sarah Rose is a journalist and author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis and Helped Win World War II, and the critically acclaimed For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History.
She was a news columnist at the Wall Street Journal, and her features have appeared in Outside, Departures, The New York Post, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appetit, The Saturday Evening Post, and Men’s Journal.
Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago.