Tattoo artist Sarah DeLeune hasn't had a solid night's sleep in fourteen years, ever since her sister Rachel was brutally murdered and Sarah was found covered in Rachel's blood. She fights her inner demons with hard work, prescription medication and alcohol, if all else fails. Lately Sarah's been especially haunted by tenuous memories of her past, maybe brought to the forefront by her estranged father's impending death from cancer. If she can't lay her demons to rest now, will she ever be free?

When Sarah's ex-lover, New Orleans homicide detective Sean Kelton, asks for her assistance on a case, she has no idea that this case will reverberate in her soul. Not only does Sarah find the tattoos reminiscent of certain occult and psychotherapy images, she finds many aspects of this new murder echo facets of Rachel's murder. Is the same man responsible for both crimes? The person Sarah believes responsible for the murder, Ashe Cain, was never seen by anyone other than Sarah. Does Ashe Cain actually exist? Or is he a figment of Sarah's imagination?

As more deaths occur, the clues lead to more confusion than answers. Why was the first murder so organized and the second one so sloppy? Is there more than one killer stalking New Orleans? And what is going on in Sarah's hometown of Adamant, Arkansas? Is a killer at work there too? Just who, or what, is the source of the strange cloven footprints found at both Rachel's murder scene and one of the modern ones?

A truly creepy thriller, THE DEVIL'S FOOTPRINTS will keep readers guessing and second-guessing just who is the culprit. Squeamish readers will probably want to shy away from this one, or at least read it during broad daylight. Ms. Stevens' action-packed climax will keep readers on the edge of their seats. This story ultimately comes down to battle of good versus evil for one's soul.

Book Summary

The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing rivers...appearing on the other side as though no barrier could stop them.

In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow...only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.

Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had 'appeared' to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder.

The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime desecrated by cloven footprints.