Spirits of Stone

The lush beauty of the Louisiana swamplands conceals many wondrous, mystifying, and gruesome secrets. Beneath this living shroud on the shores of a vast lake, a remote valley has stood sentinel over the darkest and most powerful of these secrets for hundreds of years.

For the inhabitants on the eastern shores, life is peaceful. The deadly mysticism of the past is merely superstition...or so they would have you believe. And yet...

No one travels the western road...ever

To a jaded group of friends on their annual summer road trip, these warnings of danger and superstitions are nothing more than local folklore meant to scare outsiders. But when a wrong turn strands them in an ancient and seemingly uninhabited ruin, they discover that not everything dies beneath the setting sun. Trapped in time within its shimmering walls, they uncover the answer to one of the oldest mysteries of the New World and are drawn into an ancient conflict forged in betrayal. In a place untouched by time, they discover that righteousness is a lie, justice is cruelty, and evil is merely perception.

Dina Ritz has a rich family history rooted in the folklore of New Orleans. She currently resides in Los Angeles, but it was the stories and tales of her family history that finally inspired her to write "Spirits of Stone."