Author: Anne-marie Hawkins

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1425919499

A tangled web of passions lies at the center of thisgripping drama set on the eve of the American Civil War. Itis a story about privilege, slavery, glamour, injustice, murder and redemption. The romantic mysticism of theantebellum era is ripped apart by the brutal reality oflife behind the columned, elegant mansions filled with darksecrets. Above all, it is a story of forbidden and thwartedlove.After witnessing the murder of her mother, the youngslave Cara tries to escape the Mississippi plantation whereshe was born. She is captured and sold to a prominentfamily in New Orleans.In this glamorous city with its voodoo doctors, pre-dawn duels, the French Opera House, the Quadroon Ball andthe Bamboula dances on Jackson Square, Stone Hill, theyoung and carefree heir of Twin Bayou, a large sugar caneplantation in Louisiana, wins Cara in a poker game.The arrival of Cara at Twin Bayou unleashes turmoilsof passions as we watch vivid and colorful characters -slaves as well as masters -move within their world towardits eventual doom, as the American Civil War progresses andhistory marches on.