Description

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• From John Heffernan (Snakes on a Plane) comes a dark tale of voodoo and myth, the world of the bayou and the world beyond.
• Alabaster Graves is a driver for the dead. As a veteran of funeral homes, mortuaries, and coroners offices across the Deep South, Graves chauffeurs hundreds of bodies to their final resting places. But now, Alabaster must cover the distance from Shreveport to New Orleans to retrieve the remains of Mose Freeman, renown voodoo priest, with Freeman's sultry granddaughter riding shotgun. What he doesn't know is that he's being pursued by a resurrectionist named Fallow, a necromancer who gets his power from stealing body parts... and for whom the corpse of Mose Freeman would be the ultimate prize

About the Author

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John Heffernan grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Upon graduating, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked at USC Film School for three years as a Production Coordinator for graduate and undergraduate student films. After working as a development assistant for Davis Entertainment and Dreamworks-based Patchwork Productions, John sold his first script, "A Chance for Both Barrels," in 1999 to Ignite Entertainment, now a division of Lion's Gate. This was followed by numerous writing jobs including a development deal with MTV Films and the New Line release "Snakes on a Plane" in 2006.