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Sugar Roux Voodoo
New Orleans, 1834. Lark La Beau is a green-eyed beauty and respected beneficent voodoo priestess with the sometimes uncooperative gift of clairvoyance. Captain Valcour Curry is a debonair, larger-than-life buccaneer with ambition to burn and a taste for fine things. Following a whirlwind romance with Lark, he disappears at sea, leaving Lark with a riverboat and a child to rear—alone.A guilty act of piracy causes Valcour to fall victim to a shapeshifting magician who practices the dark art of soul-swapping. For five years Valcour has been enslaved as an emotionless zombie with no memory of his loved ones or past. From dusk to dawn he is cursed to toil in the cane fields while the evil magician uses his soul to lure women and have his brutal way with them.Lark will risk hell and journey to the oppressive Broken Oak Plantation to break the curse. It’s a terrifying place. Her only tools to call Valcour’s lost soul back to life are voodoo and the sensual power of love.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 22, 2011
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Katalina Leon
41 books166 followersKatalina Leon is an artist and author who can’t commit to a single genre. Her favorite playgrounds are historical, Sci-fi, contemporary, and most of all paranormal realms. Katalina brings a sense of adventure and a touch of the mystical to erotic romance. She believes there's a daring heroine inside every woman who wants to take a wild ride with a strong worthy hero.
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August 4, 2011
Lark La Beau is a beneficent voodoo priestess, she owns a gambling riverboat that travels the Mississippi. She has the gift of being able to see into the future, but for reasons of her own she chooses not to use this gift. One night a young lady comes to see Lark, requesting the mirror of clarity card reading, something she rarely does. The woman that has come to see her about the reading is engaged to one man, but has met another who she inexplicably can not get off her mind. As the woman tells Lark her story, and describes the man, Braeme Payne that she can’t mentally shake, Lark thinks this man sounds an awful lot like the man that left her several years ago, Valcour. Despite the crudeness of the man the woman is telling her about, Lark is interested to find out if this could be true.
As Lark performs the card reading for the woman, the reading turns on herself instead. For years she has written Valcour, the love of her life off as dead, and after the card reading, which wasn’t good, a lot of uncertainty arises. And Valcour’s quartermaster, Leroy shows up an tells Lark that Valcour is alive and has been enslaved under a dark juju spell, and is being held captive at the Broken Oak Plantation. So she and Leroy set out to find the Plantation and rescue Valcour. When she finds the Plantation, she also finds out just how dark the magic is, an evil magician Braeme Payne is soul swapping, and using Valcour’s body to do his dirty deeds.
There was a sweetness to the story, and a lot of what you find out about Valcour and Lark is through her memories. There is also a son involved that Valcour doesn’t know about, because he disappeared before he knew Lark was pregnant. The blurb is misleading with that info.
This was an okay read, nothing to get excited about. The characters were…meh…okay.
I thought the plot was interesting, and that was the best part of the book, I also felt that the confrontation with Braeme at the plantation was short, I thought the author could have given that more, given the darkness of the situation.
July 14, 2011
Kat Leon spins a tale like no other...the setting was so real and the characters well crafted. Can't wait to get my hands on more from her!
July 31, 2011
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Sugar Roux Voodoo has love, with just a touch of voodoo-like flavoring and some heart-felt, sugar sweet lovemaking with a little New Orleans spice thrown in there for good measure. Sound like something you are looking for? Well, then read on.
Lark La Beau is portrayed as a strong, spiritual woman who cares deeply for those around her, especially her family. She’s training in the voodoo arts and beliefs, although it is a fictional type of voodoo dreamed up by the author for this story. Leon calls it “Beneficent voodoo”. Lark is in her mid-twenties and has been sheltered from men. The explanation for her innocence and unmarried state at such an advanced age for this time period was done in a believable way.
Captain Valcour Curry is charming, polite, and chivalrous. A patient and skilled lover, he's a perfect romance novel hero. He doesn’t come across in as much depth as Lark does but he’s still a likeable character. Something has a sinister hold over Valcour and it is this dark force and its influence on him that provides most of the conflict between him and Lark. Lark is determined to use every bit of power she has as well as the power of her love to win.
In the sex scenes the language is that of erotic romance and there’s a very erotic story told in dialogue between two characters, which is where the anal sex and forced seduction come into play. However, the action of the sex between hero and heroine is more sensual and warm, full of emotion. It’s more like spicy romance than erotic romance in those parts. That’s just an observation, not a complaint. I enjoyed these parts immensely.
Ms. Leon shines best in this story as a world-builder. It’s a very lush and visual and feeling-based world that I was able to get into very quickly. I liked the deep spiritual aspect to this story and the richness of the author’s unique take, it gave this story a difference that sparkles.
Sugar Roux Voodoo is a very original romance with lots of heated emotion and a vivid story world which brings together a charming, cultured but troubled hero and a strong-willed, open-hearted heroine who is willing to fight for him. Don’t miss this one.
Sugar Roux Voodoo has love, with just a touch of voodoo-like flavoring and some heart-felt, sugar sweet lovemaking with a little New Orleans spice thrown in there for good measure. Sound like something you are looking for? Well, then read on.
Lark La Beau is portrayed as a strong, spiritual woman who cares deeply for those around her, especially her family. She’s training in the voodoo arts and beliefs, although it is a fictional type of voodoo dreamed up by the author for this story. Leon calls it “Beneficent voodoo”. Lark is in her mid-twenties and has been sheltered from men. The explanation for her innocence and unmarried state at such an advanced age for this time period was done in a believable way.
Captain Valcour Curry is charming, polite, and chivalrous. A patient and skilled lover, he's a perfect romance novel hero. He doesn’t come across in as much depth as Lark does but he’s still a likeable character. Something has a sinister hold over Valcour and it is this dark force and its influence on him that provides most of the conflict between him and Lark. Lark is determined to use every bit of power she has as well as the power of her love to win.
In the sex scenes the language is that of erotic romance and there’s a very erotic story told in dialogue between two characters, which is where the anal sex and forced seduction come into play. However, the action of the sex between hero and heroine is more sensual and warm, full of emotion. It’s more like spicy romance than erotic romance in those parts. That’s just an observation, not a complaint. I enjoyed these parts immensely.
Ms. Leon shines best in this story as a world-builder. It’s a very lush and visual and feeling-based world that I was able to get into very quickly. I liked the deep spiritual aspect to this story and the richness of the author’s unique take, it gave this story a difference that sparkles.
Sugar Roux Voodoo is a very original romance with lots of heated emotion and a vivid story world which brings together a charming, cultured but troubled hero and a strong-willed, open-hearted heroine who is willing to fight for him. Don’t miss this one.
May 17, 2011
When the story begins, we find Lark La Beau, beneficent Voodoo Queen and owner of the Sugar Roux gambling river boat, trying to help people that come to her for her gifts of magic and clairvoyance. She has a very comfortable life, a beautiful son and loyal friends. All that is missing is the man she gave her heart to, Captain Valcour Curry.
She met Captain Curry five years earlier during one of the many house calls she made to the underprivileged of New Orleans. The larger than life buccaneer swept her off her feet, love at first sight. So much so that he joked she'd put a sugar roux love spell on him. As the weeks passed they spent every waking hour together and he asked her to marry him. But he had one more raid to do and promised it would be the last. And then he disappeared.
For months she thought him lost at sea, until word got back to her of sighting in Paris and other exotic ports with women to spare. Distraught, she thought he'd left her behind for the wild life of a pirate.
Until five years later when a woman comes to her for help and tells the story of a man she's met. Everything this woman tells Lark about the man screams Valcour except for his brash, abrasive behavior. When Lark does a Taro Card reading for the woman she sees images of Valcour's lost soul and becomes afraid for him. But not until one of Valcour's trusted friends comes to her with a tale of seeing Valcour being held under some sort of black magic spell at Broken Oak Plantation does she let go of her anger and go after the man she loves.
After a slow start which included a bit of a long story in the form of dialog by one of the characters, (Yes it was long, but it really needed to be told and it was damn HOT!) the story really took off. Lark proved you can look evil in the eye and love will win every time. She didn't care what black magic she might face, she went after her man and stared down evil. Loved the premise and Lark and Valcour are magic together. If you like a strong heroine who fights for what's hers then this is the book for you.
She met Captain Curry five years earlier during one of the many house calls she made to the underprivileged of New Orleans. The larger than life buccaneer swept her off her feet, love at first sight. So much so that he joked she'd put a sugar roux love spell on him. As the weeks passed they spent every waking hour together and he asked her to marry him. But he had one more raid to do and promised it would be the last. And then he disappeared.
For months she thought him lost at sea, until word got back to her of sighting in Paris and other exotic ports with women to spare. Distraught, she thought he'd left her behind for the wild life of a pirate.
Until five years later when a woman comes to her for help and tells the story of a man she's met. Everything this woman tells Lark about the man screams Valcour except for his brash, abrasive behavior. When Lark does a Taro Card reading for the woman she sees images of Valcour's lost soul and becomes afraid for him. But not until one of Valcour's trusted friends comes to her with a tale of seeing Valcour being held under some sort of black magic spell at Broken Oak Plantation does she let go of her anger and go after the man she loves.
After a slow start which included a bit of a long story in the form of dialog by one of the characters, (Yes it was long, but it really needed to be told and it was damn HOT!) the story really took off. Lark proved you can look evil in the eye and love will win every time. She didn't care what black magic she might face, she went after her man and stared down evil. Loved the premise and Lark and Valcour are magic together. If you like a strong heroine who fights for what's hers then this is the book for you.
April 10, 2013
Sex and voodoo magic bring this historical love story set in 1834 Louisiana to life. I really enjoyed the journey of Lark LaBeau and her desire to save the love of her life from the evil of bad magic. If hot sex with a paranormal twist is something you enjoy, then I recommend this book.
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