Starlight Surrender — Sylvia McDaniel

A Woman Betrayed
Louisiana shipping tycoon Jean Cuvier ruined Layla DuChampe's father and forced her into marriage. But when Jean is murdered, Layla discovers she was not the only woman Jean duped. To her shock, she is the third Cuvier widow...and she stands accused of his murder.


A Woman Beloved
Now, facing the gallows, and with no lack of motive and evidence to convict her of killing Jean, she must turn for help to her old adversary Drew Soulier, a rake, a charmer, and the best attorney in New Orleans. Layla knows that Drew has his doubts about her innocence, and those doubts are growing day by day. And as tensions mount both in the courtroom and in the storm of a passion they can't deny, Layla finds her heart, and her very life, in the hands of the one man she is afraid to trust...