The Lady on Esplanade

By Karen White

Book Overview

People and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola Trenholm's new life in New Orleans in the third novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White.

Nola is ready to focus on starting over in the Big Easy. She wants to get back to work on the renovations of her Creole cottage, and she is eager to launch a new murder-house-flipping business with contractor, closet psychic, and part-time nemesis Beau Ryan. After a near-death ghostly encounter and the return of Beau's missing sister, they are confident that the ghost of his mother can finally rest.

Nola believes the shotgun house on famed Esplanade Avenue is a prime fixer-upper for her first project. It may have been the site of a woman's murder and the disappearance of an entire family, but the house will be perfect for new-to-town Cooper Ravenel--who happens to have caused Nola's first heartbreak.

That's the least of Nola's worries, though. In addition to the elusive spirit of an angry young woman who accompanied Cooper to New Orleans, the house on Esplanade has its own ghosts, including one that is becoming increasingly dangerous as he tries to hide his dark secrets. And the wet footprints from the spirit of Beau's mother have returned to let them know there is still unfinished business before she can rest. Spectral danger is headed toward them, and it's up to Nola to convince Beau to help before it's too late. . . .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059354949X
• ISBN13: 9780593549490
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

So so read

11/15/25 - 11/24/25 The Lady on Esplanade (Royal Street #3) by Karen White This is the first novel I have read by Karen White for my November book club with Brenda Novak’s Book Club Group. Ironically on 11/15/25 I went to a psychic fair in a town about 35 miles away from me and saw the same psychic I have seen the past three times. This on the same day I started this book. While I believe in readings, or hearing about the people that have passed sending us message, I do not nor have I ever seen paranormal ghosts or felt changes in temperature, etc. so I kind of felt some of this was not so realistic and to have so many people tied together being able to have these abilities I just can’t believe that. So I guess I didn’t find it as entertaining. I have volunteered in places that people have stated the places are haunted, but if people have felt that, they have special powers and I must lack them as I have not witness anything. Maybe if I had read Stories 1 & 2 prior to this one things would have flowed better for me. To say the least, I struggled to get through this novel.