About The Book
Story concept
The Pump Mistress is an entertaining journey into the supernatural world of Voodoo and Black Magic in New Orleans. The Libre family, a multi-cultural and generational ancestral history dating through the 1800’s end of the Civil War era, until present 21st Century.
The Libre family legacy began on the Bradford plantation in Louisiana, under the control of General David Bradford in command of the Confederate army, General Bradford skillfully convinced the Southern army to surrender to the Union North army, thus saving the South from chaos and economic ruin by replacing freed American slaves with Haitian laborers seeking refuge from the prolong effects of the Haitian Revolution War.
General Bradford’s wife Mrs. Sarah Bradford and their four children three boys’ one girl accompanied with a house servant a young beautiful teenage black girl named Angelique Fan-chon which soon became the Generals lover and mother of his child.
The birth of Angelique’s child caused Mrs. Bradford to instigated anguish for her; to avoid tensions Angelique would retreat to the fields with the Haitian laborers this is where she met a young Haitian woman named Dalia, who spoke of a deadly secret ritual, this practice originated in West Africa and cultivated in Haiti. How tribal women would use to crush unruly tribal men under their feet powered by a super natural dark realm that would send the men’s crushed souls to a hellish chamber.
The Haitian people did not share the same customs as their American counterparts, customs Mrs. Bradford feared. Although Angelique did not believe in the supernatural, she seized the opportunity to take advantage of Mrs. Bradford fears and inadvertently to her the sacred ritual was real causing Angelique to devise an ill-fated plan that will set into motion a series of deadly catastrophic events leading to the execution deaths of Mrs. Bradford and her three children, dozens of Haitian plantation workers slaughtered, transcending the Generals soul to a hellish chamber, and the brutal murder of Angelique herself, ultimately sealing a blood oath contract that will be passed down to generations, a deadly curse that must be upheld by the Libre’s, Angelique’s descendants.
The Pump Mistress follows the life and times of Angelique Fan-chon; the script needs to show how things occurred during that period of time, a young beautiful naive black girl that labors as a domestic caregiver for a white powerful family but gets caught up into a love affair, that leads to catastrophic events that will follow her descendants to time indefinite into the 21st Century.
Character Development
Ms’ Josephine
Matriarch of the Libre’ family, granddaughter of Angelique Fan-chon, grandmother to Andréa, great-grandmother to Jessica… and gate-keeper to hell for the dark realm. Ms’ Josephine summons the ghost to crush men’s bodies inside of the belly of her granddaughter Andréa heels, while she offers the shoes and their damned souls into an antique chest closet in the attic of her home filled with family heirlooms from the Bradford Plantation.
Her character is fun loving and inviting offering spiritual readings to neighbors and tourist, while keeping the deadly secret of the families blood oath obligation inherited from her grandmother Angelique Fan-chon.
Andréa
Granddaughter to Ms’ Josephine, Mother to Jessica, very beautiful, smart, sophisticated women, owner and CEO of Pump Mistress LLC; wealthy in the women’s high-heel manufacturing industry.
Andréa’s character centers on the series, she carries on her grandmother’s blood oath obligation of crushing men’s anatomy beneath her feet by the ghost summons by Ms’ Josephine to be offered to the dark realm of hell. Andréa struggles with the male dominated political landscape of New Orleans, who attempts to squeeze the wealth out of her shoe manufacturing firm while Andréa wants to protect her daughter Jessica from the demons of the dark realm of hell of continuing the family tradition of destroying the souls of unsuspecting males.
Jessica
(Daughter to Andréa Very beautiful young women, Jessica is a perceptive and creative protagonist, who falls in love with a handsome young business executive Mr. Eric Ransom which leads to her telling him some family secrets of her multi-cultural ancestry, love and curiosity leads her to venture into sacred century old magic spells without family consent which disturbs a blood oath agreement between the dark realm of hell, a disturbance her mother and great-grandmother must fix.
Eric Ransom
Handsome young busines executive from Chicago, has family ancestry from New Orleans, boyfriend to Jessica. Upon learning the secrets from Jessica and vast wealth of the Libres’ antique heirlooms in the families attic, Eric’s greed will ultimately transcend his soul to the hellish chambers, when the demons of the dark realm realize his ancestors were involved in the murder of Angelique Fan-chon on the Bradford Plantation.
Angelique Fan-chon
Beautiful young black girl, slave house servant for the Bradford family, mother of General David Bradford child, devised an ill-fated plan using the Haitian ritual a curse that lead to the deaths of Mrs. Bradford, her three children, dozens of Haitian labors, her friend Dalia, and a fiery death to Angelique herself while sealing a blood oath contract that will follow her descendants.
General David Bradford
Commander of the Confederate Army, Plantation owner, Husband and father of five. Soul was received by the dark realm of hell from a botched plan by Angelique to hide him away for a couple of days in order to recover her baby from Mrs. Bradford.
Mrs. Bradford
Mother of four and wife of General David Bradford, jealousy and a bitter rivalry with Angelique caused Mrs. Bradford to steal and sell Angelique’s baby to another family, seeking revenge and the whereabouts of her child Angelique gathered a group of Haitian men to frightened Mrs. Bradford with machetes along her four children inside the Bradford mansion which lead to the brutal murders of Mrs. Bradford and three of her children.
Three of the Bradford Children
Murdered along with their mother inside the Bradford family mansion by Haitian men using machetes.
Justin
Oldest of the Bradford children. Managed to escape the family massacre, riding on horseback notifying the sheriff about his family’s ordeal that gathered a group of Klansman starting a blood-bath on the Bradford Plantation.
Dalia
Haitian laborer, friend of Angelique’s shared with her the deadly Haitian curse of transcending men’s souls beneath women’s feet to a hellish chamber to be received by a dark realm. Accused by Mrs. Bradford conspiring with Angelique to rid her off Plantation, beaten to death by Klansman.
Contact Author
Tracy Woods
312.981.9323
tracywoods@pumpmistress.com