The Scarlet Thread — Becky Lee Weyrich

IN THE SENSUOUS WORLD OF LONG-AGO NEW ORLEANS, DREAMS WERE PROMISED, AND PASSION GREW HOT ON THE STREET KNOWN AS THE SCARLET THREAD

And it was here, in this exotic city, that the dark-haired Creole beauty Desiree La Fleur came to reform her "Sisters of Sin", those fallen women whose lives began and ended on the street.

But Desiree had yet to learn that deep in her soul there breathed a woman of such-voluptuous passion that she would do anything to be with Roman St. Vincent, the man she loved--a man who made it clear he did not want a wife. Desiree entered the decadent world armed with her proud innocence. But she would find the temptations sweet, and fraught with danger....