Hauntings, Hoodoo & Dr. Frog

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Isn't it about time that Southern Gothic feature Black people as more than side characters? Look no further than Hauntings, Hoodoo & Dr. Frog. It's hard to be a Black man in the American South in the early '90s. Even harder when your secret side hustle is hoodoo root doctor to your Gullah people. And now a young French woman is about to turn the box of secrets upside down and empty it in front of everyone, who knows what she'll unearth when she goes poking around where she's not supposed to go. She inherited her father's decrepit antebellum mansion and his last name but she has no idea about the way white people are supposed to behave in the South Carolina Lowcountry. If Mercy Smalls agrees to help Elodie Carsgrove will it be his doom or the beginning of a beautiful friendship? Elodie had never even visited the USA when she moved into her father's potentially haunted mansion in Beaufort. Now she's the owner of a historic home and the attached weight of social expectations. She's got a live-in carpenter with a crush on her, a job at the local TV station, and a burning desire to become an investigative journalist. Her curiosity will lead her to uncover family stories, local secrets, and an entire society that no one talks about with respect but that informs everything about the local culture. Her curiosity will lead her to the heart of Gullah, hoodoo, the truth of African-American history, and the mysterious "Dr. Frog.