White Hot

by Deborah Leblanc

Odel lives deep in the Louisiana bayous, away from prying eyes. She guards a secret--one shared with very few. She is the last surviving descendent of the infamous Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau. And Odel's power are not to be taken lightly. If you find her in the swamps, she'll grant a wish, but be careful what you wish for. Odel has a habit of giving quite a bit more than you ask for . . .

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 9, 2010

About the author

Deborah LeBlanc is an award-winning, best-selling author and business owner from Lafayette, Louisiana. She is also a licensed death scene investigator, a licensed private investigator and has been a paranormal investigator for over twenty years. Deborah is currently the house ‘clairsendium’ for the upcoming paranormal investigation television show, Through the Veil.

She served four years as president of the Horror Writers Association, eight years as president of the Writers' Guild of Acadiana, and two years as president of Mystery Writers of America's Southwest Chapter. In 2007, Deborah founded Literacy Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting illiteracy in America’s teens.
For more information, visit www.deborahleblanc.com and www.literacyinc.com
To support Deborah please visit https://www.patreon.com/deborahleblanc

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

You can always tell the characters who've never read a horror story. Wayne, the protagonist of this horror novelette, is one of them. He makes a bargain with a witch and doesn't hold up his end of the deal, and so things go very badly wrong for poor old Wayne. (If he'd ever read a horror story, he'd know this and be more careful.) He's a decent enough person, just trying to get by and scrape together enough cash so that his family doesn't lose their little home, but creepy witches don't much care about consent and nor do they care about character, so sucks to be Wayne. Just what's going to happen to him is pretty obvious, but because this is only a novelette and quite a fast-paced one at that, the story zips along nicely despite the foreseeable outcome.

[J'me Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Deborah LeBlanc's novel. Great twist of voodoo, hauntings and you get the feeling of true flavor and heat of Louisiana

[Kilgallen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had really high hopes for this book. It held the promise of some good spooky voodoo thrills. It did start out ok but as the story progressed it became less thrill and more silly. Perhaps if this had been a full length novel there could have been some real spook factor included but other then the sex sceene it was more of a "goosebumps" then a horror.

[Naomi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hands down, my least favorite D. LeBlanc book, but hey, they all can't be winners! This one was just downright silly to me. To boot, I felt it just really jumped around. Not her standard fare.

[Barb · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the story and writing but wonder how the brevity of it can be classified as a book by itself. It's the length of a short story.

[Mary Hillier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scary. On the order of Thinner by King.