Wicked Weeds

Dr. Isadore Bellamy believes in evidence. A molecular biologist with a gift for exacting observation, she keeps a chaotic private scrapbook filled with toxic Caribbean plants, Haitian folklore, and memories she has never managed to classify.

Then a dead man joins her laboratory.

He is wealthy, cultivated, impeccably mannered—and secretly searching for the formula that will restore his experience of being alive. Isadore and her two friends are determined to coax him out of his isolation. None knows the secret behind his research—or that he takes their attentions as evidence of a plot to destroy him.

Woven through their encounters are entries from Isadore’s scrapbook: tales of sorcery, stolen wills, and fortunes built on the labor of the dead. These histories draw us toward a knowledge older than the laboratory, where chemistry, desire, and Vodou share the same roots.

For readers drawn to dark humor, erotic tension, and the uncanny, Wicked Weeds is a novel as sensuous as it is merciless, about the bodies we desire and the lives we presume to own.