Fifteen years ago, a local reporter was sent to New Orleans to cover Mardi Gras. He never came home.
Now, Cincinnati journalist Eddie Schmit is chasing the trail his uncle Ray left behind. The case may have grown cold but not forgotten. What begins as a search for answers quickly turns into something far darker. In the French Quarters dark shadowy alleyways and smoke-filled bars, Eddie hears whispers: a young girl who died of a broken heart… and a voodoo priestess who blames his uncle Ray for her loss.
A skeptic by nature, Eddie tries to dismiss the talk of curses and spirits. But the deeper he digs, the stranger things become. His uncle’s journal reads less like a reporter’s hastily scribbled notes and more like a warning. 
Drawn into a world where grief holds power, magic has rules, and vengeance lingers beyond the grave, Eddie begins to realize the answers he seeks may come at a terrible cost.
In Beneath the Creole Stars, some mysteries are buried for a reason.
And some doors, once opened, can never be closed.