The Rougarou's Lent

The dead don't lie — not to Odette Babin. As the reluctant apprentice to her uncle's funeral parlor in 1921 Louisiana, she knows how to read what a body carries to the grave. But when two prominent men turn up dead with carved wolf's teeth and enormous paw prints circling their corpses, the parish erupts with whispers of the rougarou — the bayou wolf that hunts sinners during Lent. Odette must untangle decades of buried secrets before the beast, real or invented, claims everyone she loves.