Creole Fires

Informationen zum Autor Kat Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty books across multiple genres, with sixteen million copies in print. She has been published in twenty-one foreign countries, including Japan, France, Argentina, Greece, China, and Spain. Her books have been nominated for the prestigious RITA award, and won both the Lifetime Achievement and Reviewer’s Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews . A resident of Missoula, Montana, Martin is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in anthropology and also studied history. She and her author husband, L.J. Martin, spend their winters in Ventura, California. Klappentext The Louisiana sun beat mercilessly on Nicole St. Claire just as fate, too, had been merciless. The once wealthy, flirtatious belle stood on the auction block to be sold as a servant. Her sensual figure disguised, her glorious titian hair disheveled, she looked like a waif, but she was all woman, trembling when she recognized the highest bidder-idol of her childhood dreams, the owner of plantation Belle Chene. A man of blazing passion, Alex du Villier bought the girl out of pity, but her aqua eyes stirred his soul and her body ignited his blood. She would be the perfect mistress to make him forget his coming marriage to a cold, haughty heiress. Now he intended to teach this innocent beauty that although he had purchased her freedom, he could steal her heart. An affair of burning desires. . . . Under a Creole moon their passion became a wildfire neither could control, driving them to heart-wrenching choices of silken sin . . . or freedom and love.Creole Fires 1 Louisiana, 1837 "Allons! Nicki, let's go! We should not have come so far into the swamp." Michele was right, of course, and Nicole St. Claire didn't miss the uncertainty in her friend's softly spoken French words. Still, it was a lovely day and the first chance she'd had to get away from the endless procession of friends who had heard of the St. Claires' visit and come to the Christophe plantation to pay their respects. "You worry too much," Nicki chided. "It isn't good for you." Stretching a bit, she worked the kinks from her back, and filled her lungs with the still-cool Louisiana air. "Mon Dieu, but you are stubborn." Michele glanced over her shoulder. Though she craned her neck and stood on her toes, she couldn't spot the big white plantation house they'd left behind. "I do not like this. There are snakes out here. Besides, I want to get out of these old clothes." Across the thicket, Nicki just smiled, brightening her pretty oval face and tilting a pair of vivid aqua eyes. "Cook says we need two buckets of berries if we want pies for supper," Nicki reminded her. Several inches shorter than Michele, Nicole was petite but not frail, her bosom full and high, her hips shapely, and her waist narrow. "You go ahead. I won't be far behind." "Your maman's not going to like it." Michele looked again at their surroundings: the meandering inlet that drained the Mississippi River not far away, the heavy carpet of grass at their feet, the towering cypress that seemed to guard this small stretch of uncultivated swampland. She swiped at a gnat that buzzed beside her ear, then jumped as a vine snagged her skirt. "I don't think I should leave you out here alone." Nicki's copper-haired head popped up from the thicket. "Who would dare to bother us" Who indeed? Nicki thought. The Christophes were one of the wealthiest families in these parts, even if times had gotten tougher. And the St. Claires were widely respected. Michele still seemed uncertain. "Papa says Alain Lefevre is coming to supper." If an image of the handsome French boy was meant to lure Nicole away, it failed miserably. "You can have him. I'm not interested." "Why not?" <...

Product details

• Authors: Kat Martin
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.1992
• EAN: 9780440208037
• ISBN: 978-0-440-20803-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Southern; Southern
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature