About the book: 1999 / New Orleans is a city in which violent passions boil. But the story that happened there once shocked even New Orleans, which was accustomed to many things. It was a great love story. The frantic, ardent love that once captured the proud and beautiful Creole aristocrat Michaela Dupre and the young northerner Hugh Lancaster. It was a story of riddles. A story of crime and adventure, carefully kept secrets and inevitable revelations. It was a story of hot sensuality and bright feeling - a story that could only happen in the sophisticated and exotic New Orleans…