Sharon Black started out as an aide working for the Louisiana Legislature but she had the looks and the smarts needed to advance her career. All she needed was an opportunity.
It came when she found herself catering to the more basic “needs” of legislators and lobbyists who took notice of her striking beauty and captivating personality. Seeing a growing demand for her services, she recruited others, professional women like herself and college students, who shared her ambitions and tastes for the finer things in life. In time, she found herself being asked to use her discretion to handle matters that had nothing to do with legislation. Men of power took her into their confidence with sensitive documents. Pillow talk from Louisiana’s movers and shakers provided her with the leverage needed to expand her operation into other Southern states.
Then her world is shattered. Arrested for running a multi-state prostitution ring, she suddenly becomes a major liability. While the news media speculates about a “black book” containing the names of her clients, she harbors a much deeper and infinitely more damaging secret: a computer flash drive containing incriminating documents intended as insurance but in a cruel twist of fate, that now only serve as her death warrant. But first, she must get it into hands she can trust.
Desperate, she sends a message from her jail cell to reporter Dylan Bienvenu, the only person she knows won’t betray her. But she only succeeds in placing a target on Dylan’s back as he is hunted by unknown members of a shadowy cartel who want him dead in an adventure that takes him on chases through Baton Rouge, Denham Springs and Madisonville. Along the way, he forms a bond with Sharon’s attorney, J. Harley Pendergast, III, and the two join forces in their quest to find and destroy a major criminal enterprise. In so doing, they encounter bombings, beatings, kidnappings and grand juries as they race to stay one step ahead of their pursuers.
Bordello on the Bayou is my latest book and this is your first opportunity to purchase it. It’s my first fiction story to be published as a physical book (I have two e-books that have never been published in hard print). All my other books are non-fiction.
Bordello on the Bayou is a novel I’ve had kicking around in my head for several years and I finally got around to committing it to paper. A few close friends have read the manuscript and the feedback I’ve received from them has been positive thus far. (But then they are my friends and probably just don’t want to hurt my feelings.)
The price of the book is $30 and you may order your signed copy by clicking on the yellow
button in the column to the upper right of this post or you may send a check for $30 to LouisianaVoice, P.O. Box 922, Denham Springs, LA. 70727.
Five dollars from each order will be used to purchase food for the Baton Rouge Food Bank.
Get your order in today so we can get contributions to the Food Bank before Christmas!
As always, thank you for your support of LouisianaVoice.
–Tom Aswell
Louisiana Voice 
Tom – your book sounds great, and the donation to the food bank very worthwhile. Is there any chance we could get it in “e” format? For many reasons including health, portability, and vision at my advancing age, not to mention lack of space on a bookshelf, I have converted to enjoying my reading in that format. That doesn’t mean I treasure these books any less – in fact I will read them more than once. For a good cause like this, I am also willing to pay the same price of $30. Without being able to share my copy, you also sell more books and have the potential to make more profit for you and the food bank. Of course this request comes from a position of my ignorance in knowing what is involved, but just thought I would ask. I’m probably not the only one who has the question. I can’t wait to read the book!
Sorry to say it is not an e-book as yet. I hope to put it in electronic form in a few weeks.
Having read the manuscript, I can say to you and anybody else this is your best work by far. I heartily encourage people to buy it and we all appreciate the donations to the Food Bank. It is, and has always been my favorite charity. I designate a portion of my annual IRA RMD to it annually and encourage other people over 70 to do the same.
I see you eased up on the cover’s phallic symbol?
Well….yeah. 😇