Ignoring dire supernatural warnings, four university students vanished in 1977 while cosplaying the Intrepid Quest fantasy board game. The avid gamers were last seen performing bogus Voodoo rituals around NOLA’s historic French Quarter at rumored red magic portal sites. Jane Byrne, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1’s Chief Security Officer and Gigi Pascoe, a transgender sleuth are feeling hopeful and empowered as they launch their new private investigative agency. Facing a crucial deadline, a desperate client hires them seeking to mark ‘Cold Case Closed’ on the baffling forty-year-old mystery. Aided by authentic NOLA Voodoo Queen Aunt Babette Broussard and Cleo Duchamp, her streetwise Gen Z protégé, the P.I. agency team doggedly unpacks the many intricately layered secrets and stonewalled investigative leads to expose a lethal trail of personal betrayals, official corruption, and inherited criminal conspiracy. The Seven Gates of Guinee is "a modern-day mystery novel. The mystifying puzzle begins to unravel as Jane and her partners - who mold into a team - tug on a thread. Some of my suspicions were confirmed, but my theories didn't plunge to the visceral depth that Martha Reed achieved. Brava!" - Kings River Life Magazine "The descriptive narration is immersive and captured my imagination from page one. But it's the characters that make this an unforgettable mystery. The Seven Gates of Guinee is perfect for readers who enjoy mystery, strong women protagonists, and lush New Orleans." - N.N. Light's Book Heaven Martha Reed is a multi-award-winning crime fiction author. Her story, "The Honor Thief," was included in This Time For Sure , the Anthony Award-winning Bouchercon 2021 anthology. Her first Crescent City NOLA Mystery, Love Power won a 2021 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award and features Gigi Pascoe, a transgender sleuth. Up Jumped the Devil (#2) and The Seven Gates of Guinee (#3) continue the NOLA adventure. Martha is also the author of the Independent Publisher IPPY Book Award-winning John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery series. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Pearl, Suspense Magazine, Spinetingler , Mystery Readers Journal, Kings River Life Magazine, Mysterical-e, Frontier Tales, and in two Sisters in Crime anthologies. Lucky Charms - 12 Crime Tales and Paradise is Deadly - Gripping Tales from Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime.