num_pages: 181
description: The RangerOn the island of Galveston off the coast of southeast Texas lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense but they know a man who might be willing to investigate. Horatio Korman crosses the water from the mainland and hopes for the best.The NunBut the bodies pile up and a hurricane is brewing up fast. One of the Jacaranda's guests sees time running out so she seeks an authority of a different sort: a priest from El Huizache who is good at solving problems and keeping secrets. Eileen Callahan has a problem to solve and a secret to keep. She crosses her fingers and sends a message that could save them all.The PadreJuan Miguel Quintero Rios broke a promise to the Virgin and so he was punished...but his intentions were pure so he was also blessed. Now he walks the southwest with second sight and a tattoo across his back: ''Deo non Fortuna''--By God not chance. The former gunslinger crosses himself and makes for the Jacaranda Hotel.Novella takes place 20 years after the events of Fiddlehead and will be unrelated to the main arc.
language: English
title: Jacaranda
publisher: Subterranean Press