A man ruled by pride. A woman once scorned.
Rich in history and flaming with passion, travel with Jennifer DeWitt from New Orleans—that humid, high-stepping city of music and magic on the Mississippi River—to the Louisiana swamps where a brash, sexy Cajun is on the hunt for a wife.
Adrien Merrill offers Jennifer a marriage bed. She has her hand out for a paycheck. Yet Jennifer finds herself falling into an unexpected destiny in a hundred-years-old culture as foreign to her as crayfish gumbo, Zydeco music, and rain-drenched bayous.
