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Attorney Zoie Taylor thinks that a move back to her hometown of Washington, DC, will make her life simpler. She gives up her high-powered position with a New York City law firm to work for a philanthropic organization. This change allows Zoie to spend more time with her daughter, best friend, and ailing grandmother. However, Zoie's new position leads to a strange mystery involving Washington's homeless population, a local shelter, and Zoie's enigmatic new beau, Jahi Khalfani. Jahi is passionate about helping those in need, but Zoie suspects that he is keeping secrets from her. These suspicions lead her to investigate Jahi's shelter and what she finds begins to trouble her. As Zoie delves deeper into a tangled web of deceit and greed, she keeps having chance encounters with a homeless man named Simon. Simon delivers strange warnings about Zoie's adventures. Should she dismiss his ravings, or is there something more to this stranger? When Zoie's daughter disappears, this desperate mother will have to make an important decision about whom she can trust to see this mystery through to its shocking conclusion.

Jeanie Maxwell is lonely. Worse, she's bored by both her life and her career. While in New Orleans for work, Jeanie goes looking for distraction, and she meets aging psychic, "Mama" Lucie Dulon, a woman grieving the recent loss of her twin sister. After reading Jeanie's palm, Lucie tells her that she is sharing her body with another soul. Certain this is nonsense, Jeanie ignores the psychic's warnings. But over the next five days, Jeanie's life totally disintegrates. As her spirit weakens, the soul she's unwillingly hosting takes over. Lucie senses Jeanie is in danger, but she's dealing with plenty of her own problems, including a long-buried family secret. A contemporary fantasy filled with occult suspense and psychic mysteries, Borrowed Destiny channels the magical realism of New Orleans in a story about family secrets, ghosts of the past, and second chances.