A much-anticipated rerelease from two all-stars of dark fantasy, Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, coauthors of Mind the Gap, this brilliant thriller follows Max Corbett in the wake of a lost love's death and the loss of a city he barely knew. But when a mysterious man offers him a map that will change the course of history and reveal the magical secrets hidden in New Orleans, will Max risk it all for one more shot?

How much would you pay for the chance to change the worst moment of your life?

From two dark fantasy legends, Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, coauthors of Mind the Gap, comes a terrifying thriller of where perilous passions meets malevolent magic.

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 is only on this painful visit for Gabrielle’s funeral—until a strange old man offers him a map to the city he once loved that is much more than meets the eye.

“Forget all the stories about magic you think you know. . . .”

It looks like an ordinary tourist map, but the old man claims that it is marked with a trail of magical moments from New Orleans’s history that just might open a door to the past. But as Max begins to uncover dark secrets about his lost love and New Orleans, the journey becomes one fraught with peril. How is Gabrielle linked to an evil group from the city’s past? Can Max evade them long enough to turn back the clock and give Gabrielle one last chance at life?