New Orleans Legacy Author:Alexandra Ripley Nothing in sixteen-year-old Mary MacAlistair's years in a convent school had prepared her for the mysterious box left to her by the mother she had never known. The name and address carved beneath the lid and its enigmatic contents were her only clues to her real identity, but enough to light a raging desire to find her family and her past. — Thus... more » Mary would begin a unforgettable journey to that town of irrepressible hopes and dangerous dreams -- New Orleans. Here she would meet the seductive and irresistibly handsome Valmont Saint-Brevin, a man with the power to ruin her. And here she would have the chance to find the greatest legacy of all: the fulfillment of love.« less