Bayou Enchantress

"Come girls, come. Come to Ma Boogaroo. Run girls, run. Devilman after you!" The Three Maiden Constellation and the curse accompanying it, appears every twenty-five years. Ma Boogaroo cannot fail this time. She must hurry while life and breath still beat in her breast. In a vision she sees the birth of three baby girls. Ma Boogaroo lives on a Louisiana bayou in a moss-covered cabin. She was one of those born seventy-five years ago this terrifying night, and the only one left who can save the latest three babies. All those previously born on this night have died troubled, bitter, loveless lives--all but Ma Boogaroo. She has one more chance to break the curse and save Parshalove Hawkins, Flora Lyde, and Lucy Carlene Howard. As the three girls grow up, they fall in love with three unusual men, and Parshalove, the bayou enchantress, helps Ma Boogaroo escape the bayou, and the men who have labeled them witches. The fate of the three girls is intricately inter-woven as this adventure unfolds. What brings everyone together and binds them inseparably, and finally saves them from the curse is a believable mixture of misadventure, legend, and love.