The Creoles — Lee Davis Willoughby

My Love, My Enemy

In the Vieux Carre of old New Orleans, bastion of the proud Creole aristocracy, an ancient prophecy haunts the lives of bold Guy La Branche and his headstrong sister, Madelaine: "The stars will fall from the sky before a La Branche will forgive a Roulleaux."

Young Madelaine, secretly in love with Phillippe Roulleaux, but also strangly drawn to the Yankee doctor, John Kellogg, suffers under the burden of the curse, losing one lover in a duel with her own beloved brother Guy - and another in a bizarre plot involving a voodoo queen whose sensual daughter is the mistress of Guy La Branche.

The fortunes of the La Branche and Roulleaux families rise and fall with the sweep of history as the stormy clans strive towards resolution.