Quest of the Heart — Janet Cookson

Sophie Tarrant, a young Englishwoman, arrives in New Orleans on a daunting quest to find her brother, Paul, who has been missing for several months. She is shocked to learn that he is under suspicion of embezzling a large sum of money from his employers, the formidable Etienne family. Sophie immediately clashes with Jean Pierre Etienne, finding him arrogant, rude and hostile. Yet he has a magnetism that keeps drawing her to him...