The Sculptor: Gret Heffernan

The woman he was forbidden to love has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her?

Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois, and home to his cousin, Birdie DuBois, a photographer. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town’s sheriff and ring leader of the area’s white supremacy group. Elora becomes pregnant with Jacques child and her murdered body is found in the river. Jacques resurrects Elora into a woman free of Arlo’s oppression, but the murder precipitates a series of events that force Jacques into exile, where he is presumed dead. Elora arises with an uncanny ability of her own. A power she develops through her own artwork and Birdie’s guidance into a focus for revenge. When she finds Jacques, will she love him or hate him for what he’s done to her? And, can she remedy the woman she’s become or the child she’s lost? The Sculptor is a noir romance about reawakening the truths we inhabit inside our bodies, our artwork, our communities, and our minds.