Babylon Weeping

Set in the gaslit streets of New Orleans, Babylon Weeping follows Lily Marcus, a young woman born in a Galveston brothel who escapes to the city’s infamous Storyville district. Among gamblers, madams, and power brokers, she climbs through a world where beauty is currency and survival is a game.

As jazz begins to rise and reformers close in, Lily navigates the shifting underworld of a city straining beneath the weight of its own secrets. But in a place where music wails through the night and darkness is never far behind, freedom is an illusion — and every promise has a price.

Spanning decades of violence, desire, and spiritual decay, Babylon Weeping is a Southern Gothic novel about power, memory, and the ghosts that refuse to stay buried.