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The Levee Has Eyes: The Sins of Pointe-Aux-Chenes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 28 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The bayou remembers every sin. And the earth is waking up.
In the fading marshland community of Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana, the massive earthen levee is the only thing standing between the town and the hungry, rising waters of the Gulf. To the locals, it's a muddy scar of salvation. But to Renee Broussard, the newly appointed levee inspector, it feels like a coastal graveyard waiting for a final burial.
As a brutal hurricane season brings a devastating Category 2 storm straight toward Terrebonne Parish, the tides begin to swell-and Renee notices anomalies along the ridge. Mangled crab traps, missing hounds, and deep, misshapen footprints pressed into the slick clay core. Footprints that lead straight into the dark, suffocating throat of the drainage culverts.
When the storm washes out the only road north, the remaining residents hunker down inside St. Jude's Church, entirely cut off from the outside world. As paranoia sets in and the water levels flash over the steps, people start disappearing in the dead of night.
Renee soon uncovers a terrifying truth hidden deep within the levee's rusted iron manifold: the nightmare hunting them isn't a swamp spirit or a ghost story. It is a flesh-and-bone monster born from a horrific family secret the town elders tried to bury thirty-five years ago. Now, he has returned to claim his birthright. He breathes the mud, he navigates the pipes like blood vessels, and he isn't just killing for sport-he is systematically undermining the levee's foundation to wash Pointe-aux-Chenes completely off the map.
With the storm surge mounting and the clay beginning to bleed, Renee must wage a solitary war against the elements and an unstoppable predator before the water takes them all.
Because when you stare into the dark heart of the swamp... the levee has eyes.
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