By Strange Paths Author:Sallie Lee Bell Following a secret and brutal abduction one dark night in Paris, Elise Demerest began her storm-wracked journey across the Atlantic to New Orleans... where she was to encounter the unfamiliar, wide-open spaces of this just-settled territory of the early 1700's. Elise was not at all like the others arriving that that day aboard the ship. There ... more »was something enticingly different about this beautiful young woman... a certain peace and resoluteness of spirit immediately evident to both Andre Damont and his counterpart Andre Chenier. From the beginning she attracted both men as no other woman had... which soon led to a bitter and near-fatal rivalry between then for her love.« less