Gretchen Heffernan

The Sculptor Gretchen Heffernan

The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes pregnant with Jacques child and her murdered body is found in the river. Jacques resurrects Elora into a woman free of Arlo's oppression, but Elora arises with an unearthly ability of her own. When she finds Jacques, will she love him or hate him for what he's done to her? And, can she remedy the woman she's become or the child she's lost?