"A luscious, engaging, and heartfelt novel with plenty to say about individual responsibility
and the legacy of slavery."Library Journal

"Like The DaVinci Code, Back to Wando Passo takes its readers deeply into an arcane,
fascinating, and dangerous body of knowledge and belief; the ancient voudou religion is both healing and
deadly. And fans of Cold Mountain will appreciate Payne's close attention to period detailto
exactly how life was experienced in the 19th centuryas well as his knowledge of the Civil War. But this
is really, finally, a love story that spans the century, going beyond death. Back to Wando Passo
holds the deepest themes of human lifepassion, jealousy, race, and beliefat the center of its torn heart."
Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace

Back to Wando Passo is a passionate and elegantly written story of two related love triangles: one
marriage unraveling in the present day, and another one shattered by the Civil War. The interweaving stories
build to a simultaneous crescendo of betrayal, revenge, and redemption.

Grappling with the tangled subject of race in America, the plot lines are haunted by an occult twist. When
Ransom Hill, the contemporary protagonist, discovers a Civil War-era "prenda," an iron pot used by Cuban
slaves for conjuring, he unearths something very strange indeed.

David Payne is the author of four previous novels: Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, which won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, Early from the Dance, Ruin Creek, and Gravesend Light. He lives in North Carolina.

Dick Hill, named a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned three Audie Awards and numerous Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted and written for the theater. He and his wife, narrator Susie Breck, live in Michigan.