Savage Oaks

the long version

BRIDE OF LIES Raised behind the cloistered walls of a Paris convent, seventeen-year-old Suzanne Duprée was hardly prepared to become mistress of a magnificent New Orleans estate, let alone become the wife of virtual stranger. But both had happened. Too late she learned that she'd been taken as a bride to save Keith Savage's land, land that also housed his quadroon mistress! She knew now she had to unshroud the secrecy surrounding her own mysterious heritage. On a brazen quest from the glorious mansions of Savannah to the seamy brothels of New Orleans, she would learn the truth about the past she had to find and the man she dared to desire....