Parents' Guide to Evangeline of the Bayou

EVANGELINE OF THE BAYOU follows a 12-year-old haunt-huntress-in-training who travels from the swampy bayou of rural Louisiana to the bustling city of New Orleans to solve a special supernatural case. Orphaned at birth and raised by her "swamp witch" (as skeptics call haunt huntresses) Gran, Evangeline isn't sure if she has the true powers she'll need to be confirmed as an official haunt huntress by the mysterious council that oversees the mystical order. However, she knows that if she doesn't find her "familiar" (a sort of spirit animal bonded for life to the haunt huntress) by the time she turns 13, she will have proven to be just a "middling," or someone without true magical abilities. All the same, she tirelessly works to learn the traditions and arcane arts that will let her exorcise demons, exhume ghosts, and battle vicious beasts like grims (gigantic dogs that serve as omens for death, like a canine grim reaper), shadow creepers, and the nearly unstoppable rougarous (swamp werewolves). Battling these dangerous monsters, as well as her own self-doubt and fear of losing her aging Gran, Evangeline faces her hardest trial yet when apprentice and master are called to the big city for a very important mission to protect a strange family in an old mansion where not everyone is who they appear to be.