Gothic love stories of old New OrleansThese are stories like no others about facing death, love, and an untimely coming to terms. In Sweet Opium, it was a summer like no other in Bay St Louis, Mississippi, the haunt of the idle New Orleans rich. Seventeen-year-old Sissy should have known Hurricane Katrina was coming. Like Sissy, Rooster, 39, in Inside the Rain, faced a rude upheaval on Felicity Street in Garden District, New Orleans. A stage 4 cancer report and romantic betrayal have felled him. Can our heroes pull themselves up, find optimism, a god-centered moment-to-moment life in mysterious, death-defying New Orleans?