Song of the Bayou — Elinor Lynley

Susannah heard herself moan. Nicholas's lips claimed hers and the world began to spin...

Susannah Paxton knew that Nicholas Jourdain, a bold, handsome Cajun planter, was her father's enemy in the escalating violence between the Americans who wanted Louisiana's rich land of sugarcane and slaves and the French emigrants who claimed it for their own. But Susannah's loyalty to her father was no match for the swift, hard passion that swept her into Nicholas's arms. Neither the cruel schemes of Nicholas's rival ... nor the strange voodoo of the Haitian slaves ...nor the hoofbeats of hooded vigilantes threatening danger could temper the power of their hungry kisses, or dampen the fire of their forbidden love....