ladders
twisted ladder
psychologist madeleine leblanc has spent her whole career trying to determine the cause of her fathers schizophrenia . she always felt that she could unravel its origins and cure the man who left her and her brother marc to practically raise themselves on the louisiana bayou . but when marc takes his own life on a fishing boat in the middle of bayou black madeleine embarks on a journey into her family history to a time when the antebellum era was crumbling and the line between servant and master was starting to fade . and the more she pries the more she reveals her familys dark past rife with conjured demons and river magic gone awry . madeleines only hope to save herself is to face the ghosts of the past the dangers of the present and the twisted ladder that links them all together .