Les Chandelles -- a great plantation, lush with license and seething with secret shame
Charles Bonfils, the master of Les Chandelles, whose iron strength was matched only by his insatiable desires...Catherine, his frigid wife, her mind twisted and her body wracked bt repressed hunger...Emilie, his beautiful daughter, raised to be a great lady, but threatened by a sensual fate beyond her father's nightmares...Chaz, his dissolute son, who in the depths of degradation committed a shocking act of outrage...Alicia, the beautiful mulatto girl born and bred to perform a single exquisite act of love again and again...Jess, the slave whose lust for free amnhood made him violate the greatest of taboos...
Harvest of Desire
A mighty novel that brings to burning life the inferno of corruption and passion in the half-slave, half-free Old South