Crossroad
Crossroad is the first book in the Melisende Dulac Series.
Publication and Reception
Crossroad will be published in late 2019 or early 2020.
General Information
Crossroad is the first novel but the second story in the Melisende Dulac series. It is preceded by Hey Nineteen, a short story taking place about eight months earlier.
Plot
One July midnight Melisende Dulac, apprentice mortician, is called out to pick up a woman who died at an area nursing home. On the way, she comes upon a horrific car crash at a remote crossroad. At least three are dead and a fourth may not survive the night. But nearby, Melisende trips over a surprising survivor, an uninjured newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor even a clear indication she was part of the crash.
The baby is mystery enough, but when the crash victims' bodies are stolen from her family's mortuary, Melisende is quickly branded the best (and only) suspect in the theft. The only way to save herself is to figure out what really happened at the crossroad and how the catastrophe is linked to the unsavory past of the high desert community she's only just begun to think of as home.
Jacket Copy
To come.
Major Characters
- Melisende Dulac
- Rémy Bouton
- Elodie Bouton
- Barb Ellingson
- Deputy Sheriff Jeremy Chapman
- Kendrick Pride
- Paulette Soucie
- Landry McElroy
- Sheriff Hayward Turnbull
- Chief Deputy Omar Duniway
- Deputy Sheriff Ariana Roldán
- Quince Kinsrow
- Doctor Aaron Varney
- Geoffrey Bouton (mentioned only)
- Helene Bouton
- Paxton Berber
- Xavier Meyer
- Lydia Koenig
- Molly Claire Maguire