Book Synopsis
Ruby
Living in the bayou with Grandmere Catherine and her drunken, outcast Grandpere Jack, Ruby Landry is filled with hope and promise. Yet she cannot help wondering about her dead mother and the mysterious father she has never known. After seeing her father in a faded photograph, she learns of the shameful deception and shocking scheme that must now surface. When Grandmere Catherine dies, Ruby is devastated. Left to seek out her father in his vast New Orleans mansion, she finds a house built upon lies, madness and torment. Now she must cling to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive, for only their love can save her now.
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Pearl In The Mist
After a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans Mansion and rejoices in the love of a father she has never know. But true happiness is fleeting, as she must carefully avoid her venomous stepmother, Daphne, and her bitter twin sister, Gisselle. Idyllic Greenwood, an exclusive girl's boarding school, promises to offer some peace from Daphne and maybe even a fresh start with Gisselle. But Mrs. Ironwood, the headmistress, plots with her stepmother to make Ruby's life miserable, while Gisselle is out to break every school rule and leave her to suffer the consequences. Then a terrible tragedy leaves her alone in a world that never really wanted her, where she must summon every ounce of her Cajun strength to reclaim her home, future and the happiness she once knew.
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All That Glitters
Driven from the Dumas mansion and back to her beloved bayou, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her daughter Pearl. Her first love, Paul Tate, whisks her into his grand house and her future seems assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can even forget the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in secret and remain man and wife in name alone. But the terrible memories of the past are woven into her destiny and only when the storm of evil passes will she glimpse the promise of a morning sunshine filled with the laughter of a family of her own.
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Hidden Jewel
Pearl Andreas dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor. And after landing a summer job as a nurse's aide in an elegant, old hospital her future looks bright and promising. But her future is shadowed by her family's sinful legacy and the cruel accident that befalls one of her twin brothers. Then Ruby, her mother, flees back to her Cajun roots. Seeking her mother and the shocking truths of her heritage, Pearl finds refuge in the arms of a Cajun man, but only when the storm clouds clear will she be able to savor the sweetnes that always seems beyond tomorrow.
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Tarnished Gold
Gabriel Landry is as beautiful as her beloved bayou, but when Octavious Tate surpises her near a secluded pond her sweet innocence is shattered forever. Pregnant and desolate, she agrees to let Octavious's wife, Glady's, claim the baby as her own. A twilight gloom then settles over Gabriel until a hunting party brings gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, she does not heed the warning voice; that he may bring more grief than she can bear.
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