The Epic Misadventures of Tom Soiled

He had been clean for eleven days. Then the letter arrived.

Once upon a runway in Milan, Tom Soiled was a god — gorgeous, ruined, and impossible to ignore. Now he drifts down the Mississippi on a borrowed pontoon boat with nothing to his name but a flask, a reputation, and a single envelope from his Aunt Prudence.

But this is New Orleans. Trouble here wears alligator shoes and dances on rooftops.

Within hours of stepping onto Bourbon Street, Tom finds himself chased by a vengeful ringmaster, mocked by a vaudeville-singing sewer rat, shrunk to four inches tall by two delightfully unhinged scientists, ferried in a matchbox, escorted by a militia of disciplined ants, and protected by a cat with the moral compass of a cocktail waitress.

All to retrieve one tiny piece of paper from one very dirty drain.

Hilarious, gross, gorgeous, and just a little bit doomed, Tom Soiled is a noir picture book misadventure for kids who love their heroes a little bit ruined — and their endings a lot unexpected.