Contemporary fiction · Book Three
Call Me Cal: The Hotel
Seventy-two rooms. Four months. Mardi Gras is coming.
The Hotel St. Clair has good bones, failing plumbing and seventy-two rooms. Cal sees a place for food and music. June sees the work it will take to make it run. Marisol sees what it could mean to New Orleans.
They have four months before Mardi Gras, guests still in residence and a building full of demands. As the renovation pulls them deeper into the city’s business and politics, the hotel becomes much more than a property. It is a test of what the three can build together. Read this third installment after Jazz Fest.
A building worth fighting for.
Continue Cal’s story after Jazz Fest. The Prequel follows as Book Four in the published reading order.
The Call Me Cal series
Begin with Second Line Chef. Continue in the published reading order.
- 01Second Line Chef
Cal arrives with a neglected trumpet and a barely used knife roll. Between Miss Jo’s kitchen, jazz gigs, and June—who sees through his charm—he starts building a life he actually wants. Then someone auctions off his cooking without asking.
- 02Jazz Fest
As Jazz Fest approaches, Cal’s new life grows louder and more public. June, Marisol and an offer from his old world force him to decide where he belongs.
- 03The Hotel
Cal, June and Marisol take on a worn-out French Quarter hotel. Renovation is only the beginning when the city starts bringing its problems to their door.
- 04The Prequel
A return to California brings Cal’s carefully controlled former life into view—and reveals the man he was before New Orleans.
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