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BOOK BLURB:
Emile LaCour, scourge of the finest young male flesh of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the plantation area of the Louisiana delta region, has been freed from his tomb to sustain himself once more by loving the young men of New Orleans to death. He does so by draining them of their blood and vitality which then rejuvenates LaCour.

Lamont Breaux, who is responsible for freeing LaCour in an effort to uncover the vast fortune LaCour’s family hid before LaCour was entombed, oversteps his greed and falls victim to LaCour’s wrath. Needing a new financial manager and now wanting a companion as well, LaCour seduces Gage Angle, a blond giant member of a motorcycle gang.

LaCour’s experiment to find the balance between making love to Gage and loving him to death goes awry when the curse of LaCour’s never-ending life and the extreme requirements to sustain that lifestyle are transferred to Angle. Angle, however, is not the self-possessed moral decadent LaCour is, and his struggle with what LaCour is and what he himself has become leads to a fiery conclusion.

BOOK REVIEW:
The famous and mysterious Fontnet family: legendary for their missing wealth, infamous for their missing kin. All the funds of rumor had allegedly been converted to gold and hidden in their plantation manor, but decades of search revealed nothing. Every Fontnet family member died of a wasting disease, blood-related. Rumors also ran rampant of the sexual depredations of surviving son-in-law Emile Lacour of Paris, whose capacity and size tormented multiple young males in the Mississippi River region.

Lamont Breaux is no fool about the treasure: he knows Lacour was allegedly buried alive, and for what reason. That’s why he isn’t set on opening Lacour’s coffin himself. Breaux wants to be business partners, but Emile Lacour is way more man-and vamp-than even Breaux expects. You just can’t keep a good man-um, a strong vamp-down. Emile hasn’t been entombed all these centuries not to enjoy himself to the fullest upon release. If Breaux can’t keep up, well-Emile will find someone who can: biker Gage, a tough mountain of a male.

Second Coming: Emile Lacour is a tantalizingly subtle novel of the paranormal and a neat interweaving of historical and contemporary settings. Settle back in your favorite armchair and curl up for an enjoyable read of characters, plotting, and vivid imagery. That subtle twist of humor underlying the action just adds extra scintillation to the story. Second Coming inspired me to read more of author habu’s tales.

Prepare to be tantalized and scintillated by Emile’s upfront eroticism. He is so more-than-life-size that his actions don’t even count as cruelty, for he is like a force of nature. In his very immensity he is an appealing character, and the secondary characters who are like ants before a giant are a fine backdrop for Emile as he strides across contemporary Louisiana, as he did in the 18th-19th century. Caution: kicker ending!

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