The Unchanging Mirror

Some women inherit houses. Angelique Landry inherited a bloodline that refuses to stay buried.After her husband is declared dead, Angelique brings their four-year-old daughter, Lila, to the crumbling Landry estate in Natchez, Mississippi. She plans to restore the abandoned mansion, open a bed-and-breakfast, and build a new life from the ruins of the old one.But the house has been waiting for them.A Confederate soldier watches from the upstairs windows. A woman in black whispers to Lila beneath the magnolia trees. And sealed behind a parlor wall, Angelique discovers a bloodstained handkerchief, a brass military button, and an iron box that should never have been opened.In 1864, Ellie Landry and four grieving women formed the Black Magnolia Society. Desperate to protect the men they loved, they placed their faith in the beautiful and ruthless Corrine Duval. The ritual she offered promised salvation.Instead, it consumed the men, bound the women to the soil of Natchez, and created a curse that has survived for more than a century.Now the final Landry descendant has come home.As mirrors awaken and roots spread beneath the estate, Angelique learns that her husband knew the truth about his family-and his death may not have happened the way she was told. To save Lila, she must uncover what Ellie sacrificed, what Corrine buried, and why generations of unburied men are still calling from beneath the red Mississippi clay.Because the dead are not gone.The women have not aged.And the Black Magnolia is blooming again.The Unchanging Mirror is Book One of the Black Magnolia Society, a Southern Gothic paranormal thriller filled with haunted houses, buried family secrets, immortal women, restless soldiers, and a curse rooted deep in the soil of Natchez.