Crossroads

Excerpt from Tom's personal Journal: 
 
My name is Tomas Valentine. I was born October 18th, 1912. I died February 14th, 1934. How am I telling you this story? Because I didn't stay dead. Of course, there is a price to pay for a second chance. My body was taken from me and I was stripped of all my senses. I was no longer a man, but something that straddled the line between life and death. I would spend the next few months searching for a way to return to the life I once knew. I would encounter things that people only see in their nightmares, wrought by a man wrapped in shadows. Whoever he was, he'd made me this way, and he had all the answers. But if I knew then what I know now, I never would have asked the questions. 
 
Set in the 1930's, the story follows Tom Valentine, a young man who'd never had a dream in his life, until he had a horrifying nightmare that belonged to someone else. Tom travels to New Orleans to celebrate his mother's birthday around Mardi Gras. During the festival Tom is knocked out, awaking some time later without any senses, save for the slight ability to hear. When Tom's sight returns, he catches his reflection to find that he is no longer a man, but a creature closer to a six-foot voodoo doll. Tom must learn to survive in his new form and discover a way to return to his real body, all the while searching for who had done this to him and why.