The Power: A Novel of Voodoo

The night before Mama was beaten with a salted leather strap, she told her daughter, Don t worry, chile. You be a queen. Those words sustain the little slave in the dark days ahead. THE POWER follows Reyna Royale, a slave girl, from her voodoo initiation on a Georgia cotton plantation to partial freedom and esoteric study with Marie Laveau in New Orleans, America s voodoo capital, and to gold rush San Francisco where she becomes a rich and successful madam, a courageous underground railroad worker, and ultimately a cold blooded murderess.

About the Author

Beginning as a U.S. Navy Journalist in the Pacific, Jim Duggins studied with James Michener and Bill Lederer. Following military service, he went to the University of Illinois, San Francisco State, and UC Berkeley after which he taught English and Speech at high school, community college, and university levels. While teaching, he wrote and edited for academic journals and freelanced with magazines and newspapers. Now, in a new career, writing fiction full time he has returned to his love of history. THE POWER is the first of two novels and he is at work on two more. He lives in the desert in southern California and has a house in Mexico where he collects Mexican Folk Art and works is a regular contributor to several museums around the United States.

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