Jamie Derouen's pampered life as scion of a nouveau riche New Orleans family is coming apart like the plastic beads of a Mardi Gras necklace.

Ashley Turner, the man she loved, was murdered by her father, torn from her arms and taken to the swamps, the latest sacrifice to appease an angry god. A year later, Ashely has come back from the dead, horribly changed, his mind broken, and now her father has disappeared. Jamie can feel the eyes of the god looking at her, hear its laughter in the thunder of the Gulf Coast's spring storms.

Can she escape her father's legacy? What will she have to give up to have a chance at a new life?