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PUBLISHED
Boston : Mariner, [2010]
©2010
©2010
DESCRIPTION
406 pages : map ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780547386430, 0547386435, 0547386435 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In 1704 the French colony of Louisiana needs wives for the struggling settlers and Elisabeth and twenty-three other girls are dispatched to satisfy the request. The skeptical bride soon falls in love with her charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier-husband, Jean-Claude, a passion which is shared by an abandoned cabin boy, Auguste, who has also fallen under the spell of the dashing Jean-Claude. When in time Jean-Claude betrays them both, the two find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated