Why does her masterful husband seem to want her one moment, then shun her the next? Why is he so jealous, so determined to control her every move? What are the terrible hurts, ghosts, and betrayals haunting Roland, painful secrets he withholds from her even as their passion ignites? Barely past girlhood, Angelique must confront a woman’s dilemma and fight for Roland and their marriage. Angelique’s mysterious bridegroom both allures and unsettles her, and she struggles between her pride and her budding desire for him. All too soon she is Roland’s bride and mistress of Belle Elise Plantation. Yet Jean Pierre knows he can never make this untouched angel a proper husband, so he engineers a marriage of convenience for Angelique with his wealthy, enigmatic cousin Roland.Īngelique is stunned to find herself forced into marriage to handsome, formidable Roland Delacroix. Then Giles cruelly betrays his niece, offering her on the auction block to his depraved poker companions! Only the intervention of Jean Pierre Delacroix, notorious rogue turned Cupid, saves innocent Angelique from a fate worse than death. Orphaned at seventeen, Cajun beauty Angelique Fremont is left to the tender mercies of her profligate Uncle Giles in antebellum New Orleans.
From the #1 Kindle Bestselling Author in Victorian and Time Travel Romance!Īvailable Again at Last: Eugenia Riley’s most passionate and powerful “coming-of-age” historical romance set in sumptuous Old South Louisiana!
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