G. M. Cummings

A Promise of Fidelity G. M. Cummings

Jonathan Prudhomme, a middle-aged, millionaire playboy. Suddenly wakes up in a hospital with a broken leg. He had been vacationing in Mexico until the freak accident occurred. Because he's flat on his back for a month in a New Orleans hospital, he has plenty time to think about his life, and how he has squandered it, leaving a trail of broken hearts and enemies in its wake. Is someone out to kill him? Is voodoo involved? After all this is New Orleans. People say that New Orleans is stock full of voodoo practitioners who can do all kinds of evil tricks and even astral project from their bodies. In his helpless state, some very unusual and gifted nurses attend Jonathan and his life begins to undergo a metamorphosis. But is it enough to ward off the spell of intrigue and witchcraft that has been cast over him and threatens to consume him, body and soul?