Louisiana — Diana Summers

It was her heritage...
The raw passions of the untamed territory, the glory that was yet to be -- and Solitaire, the proud plantation whose uncertain future she held in her beautiful young hands....

From the dazzling ballrooms of Creole society to the exotic isle of Barataria, Sharon Rose Yardley would be swept from innocence to high adventure. For in 1812, as America stood poised at the brink of war, Sharon Rose stood alone in the midst of danger. Her birthright threatened by unscrupulous businessmen, her life and honor menaced by savage pirates, her heart possessed by a bold buccaneer -- a man forbidden to her yet bound to her by murderous intrigues of the past -- she would endure, a woman of courage and daring, to fulfill love's rapturous promise, to seize the triumphant legacy of...LOUISIANA