About the Book

August 1992. The new Bourbon Street Ripper is still at large, recreating Vincent Castille’s murders from twenty years before with surgical precision. And every killing matches a story his granddaughter, mystery writer Samantha Castille, published before it happened.

When the evidence points straight at Sam, she becomes the prime suspect in a case that defies logic. Detective Rodger Bergeron, who captured the original Ripper and has known Sam since she was a child, refuses to believe she’s guilty. His brilliant partner Michael LeBlanc isn’t so sure. Then an indigo-clad assassin begins silencing witnesses, the mayor declares martial law in the French Quarter, and whispers surface of the Knight Priory, a secret society that once ruled New Orleans.

Sam finds unexpected comfort in novelist Richard Fastellos, but as her grip on reality slips, she must face the question she fears most: whether the darkness in her family’s past has been waiting inside her all along.

Set against New Orleans’ haunted streets, A Life Without Fear is the gripping second book in Leo King’s Sins of the Father trilogy. It’s a psychological thriller about inherited darkness, love under suspicion, and the courage it takes to live without fear.