Louisiana Rose — Elizabeth Sherwood

BELLEFLEUR

Bordered by live oaks draped with Spanish moss, the sprawling Louisiana plantation was a showplace. Presiding serenely over the most profitable cotton fields on the upper Mississippi river, it had been the pride and passion of the DuQuaine dynasty for three generations. Then Jessica McCormick walked up its long, sweeping drive...

JESSICA

Driven into a life of indentured servitude by her shiftless father, the seventeen-year-old innocent had resigned herself to a bleak fate. Then Jessica met her new employer, handsome Nicholas DuQuaine, who awakened hungry desire. And now, as a treacherous rival plotted to seduce Nicholas and gain control of Bellefleur, it was Jessica who would expose the other woman--and risk her life to save the man she so passionately loved...