From back of book: Barely six months after leaving New Orleans, history professor Max Corbett is returning to a place he hardly recognizes. The girl he'd loved--and lost--is dead, and the once-enchanted city has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Max has not planned much beyond Gabrielle's funeral--until a strange old man offers him a map and an insane proposition.

It looks like an ordinary tourist map, but it's supposedly marked with a trail of magical moments from New Orleans's history that might open a door to the past...a past where Max might be able to save Gabrielle--if he can deliver her from the terrifying evil that stole her away.

(Source: Spectra)