As traiteur to the dead, Raleigh Cheramie should be feeling relieved for the break the dying have given her recently. But as the granddaughter of Barbeaux's folk healer, she knows it's a sign of trouble when her unusual genetic inheritance fizzles, especially after a contestant on Barbeaux Bayou's newest reality show dies in an animal attack straight out of the Cajun folk tales of the area. But getting involved causes new relationship mayhem and places her right in the tracks of the next attack. As the contestants on her sister's new small town reality television show Barbeaux Hearts reach endangered species status though, Raleigh Cheramie must figure out the changes in her abilities to help catch a killer before her small town forms a hunting party putting the ones she cares about in danger.