Lion of Oakhurst — Walter Reed Johnson

THE BEAUFORTS OF OAKHURST MANOR - A DYNASTY WHOSE FATE WAS INTERTWINED WITH AN AMERICA FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE AND PASSIONATELY SEEKING HER DESTINY

Gallant Lance Beaufort and Carrie Emerson were two halves of a whole - lovers made for each other, then brutally torn apart by evil intrigue. For Carrie, this searing separation began with unspeakable rape, and led her from her sheltered plantation girlhood to a reign of mingled triumph and torment as queen of the most elegant bordello in old New Orleans. For Lance, the path of perverse fortune started with flight from a lynch-crazed mob into the arms of a woman who made him her sexual plaything, and then escape into the dangers and challenge of the untamed Western frontier.

Before these two would come together again in a love that only ecstasy could tame, their lives would embrace the heights and depths and relentless destiny of America in an age when there were no limits to greatness, no laws of restraint...