Silk and Shadow — Aola Vandergriff

She Was A Tender Young Blossom In A Paradise Steaming With Treachery And Shame

Arielle had been touched by tragedy -- now she must adjust to a new life in a strange new land. By the misty, jungle-strewn bayous near New Orleans, on a plantation riddled with violent passions and intrigue, she must become the wife of a man she has met but once, a man with a secret that will keep them wed in name alone, a man hopelessly tied to his mother, the iron-willed Madame Villere.