Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelizatio
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From Shana Abé, author ofThe Truelove BrideandA Kiss at Midnight, comes this exquisitely emotional, beautifully written novel about two warring clans on a Scot
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