2 Books Published by Lunar Tower Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Borrowed Destiny is a contemporary fantasy filled with occult suspense and psychic mysteries. It channels the magical realism of New Orleans in a story about family secrets, ghosts of the past, and second chances.

Jeanie Maxwell is a forty-something black professional. She is lonely and bored with her life and troubles abound in her marriage and with her career. On a New Orleans business trip, Jeanie encounters “Mama” Lucie Dulon, an aging psychic, who is grieving the recent loss of her twin sister. Lucie reads Jeanie’s palm and tells her that she is sharing her body with another soul. Confused and in disbelief, Jeanie thinks what she’s heard is all nonsense. But over the next five days, Jeanie’s life disintegrates. In the meantime, Lucie Dulon is dealing with serious problems of her own. She senses that Jeanie is in grave danger and wants to help. Can she save Jeanie?

Attorney Zoie Taylor thinks that a move back to her hometown of Washington, DC, will make her life simpler. She gives up her high-powered position with a New York City law firm to work for a philanthropic organization. This change allows Zoie to spend more time with her daughter, best friend, and ailing grandmother.

However, Zoie’s new position leads to a strange mystery involving Washington’s homeless population, a local shelter, and Zoie’s enigmatic new beau, Jahi Khalfani. Jahi is passionate about helping those in need, but Zoie suspects that he is keeping secrets from her.

These suspicions lead her to investigate Jahi’s shelter and what she finds begins to trouble her. As Zoie delves deeper into a tangled web of deceit and greed, she keeps having chance encounters with a homeless man named Simon. Simon delivers strange warnings about Zoie’s adventures. Should she dismiss his ravings, or is there something more to this stranger?