Rootwork

by Wade Stabler

Marie, a nurse in a mental hospital, is new at the job. She escorts patients places, making sure their trips are safe and that they don't harm themselves or others. Her daily routine sees nothing out of the ordinary until she is assigned to escort Clayton. Clayton intrigues her. He doesn't sleep, has chronic headaches, and otherwise seems normal. She listens in on his therapy sessions. With a stutter in his voice he talks about how he hasn't slept for days, and how his mother has cursed him, and that is why he was committed to the asylum. As curiosity gets the best of her she puts her new job in jeopardy, stealing Clayton's information, which leads her the Delacroix Plantation, where Clayton's mother lives. She slowly begins to learn perhaps Clayton is completely sane. In a desperate attempt to help him she gets caught up in a web of fear, spirits, hoodoo curses, and several skeletons in the closet.

220 pages, Paperback

Published August 13, 2010