Coming in July 2026
Blood Debt: Creole Shadows
Reconstruction Epic / Historical Western Adventure
“They call it the Big Easy. Collecting a blood debt here isn't.”
The White League's rise slides the Crescent City and the Republic toward fresh peril — from the shadows of the French Quarter to the barricades of the Battle of Liberty Place, alongside legendary General James Longstreet. Shannon Dumas is back seeking justice, as the hardest man he's ever faced is the boy he left behind.
The boy swore to never return. New Orleans had other plans.
He came back to bury a friend and lay old ghosts to rest, but the city never forgets. In Reconstruction New Orleans, from the wrought-iron shadows of the French Quarter to the barricades of the Battle of Liberty Place, alongside legendary General James Longstreet, Shannon Dumas seeks justice — as the hardest man he's ever faced is the boy he left behind.
The White League's rise threatens a dark hurricane for the Crescent City and the republic. Old accounts come due, strange alliances are brewing, and old flames burn bright. A man can outrun everything but the city that made him.
Come home to the Big Easy when
- You want authentic New Orleans historical fiction — the White League, the Battle of Liberty Place, a city on the brink of a second civil war wrapped in page-turning prose.
- You've followed Shannon Dumas through Shannon, Dodge City, and Father King, and are ready for his most personal tale yet.
- You want an old-fashioned American hero torn between the life he's building and a debt he can never quite bury.
- You want a Reconstruction-era saga with the gunfire of a Western and the heart of Southern historical fiction.
- You're after a story where the past is never dead and the bill is coming due.
Blood Debt resonates with readers who enjoyed
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Shiloh by Shelby Foote
- Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
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