title: The New Orleans Way
author: Newman, Liz
description: Everything comes at a price. Love. Security. Even happiness.
  Southern debutante Rosemarie Kuhn is captivated by the lowborn private detective Michael Hennessy. In 1890s New Orleans, status and propriety can get in the way of true love. Betrothed by her mother to marry a general, she finds her new suitor has placed her and her family's finances in a precarious position. Her love for Michael Hennessy and her alliance with a Mafia family offers a tantalizing solution to her woes, but as her ardor for Michael grows stronger, so do the forces determined to keep them apart.
  
  Amidst a city built upon lust and lawlessness, will the fire between Rosemarie and Michael ignite a passion that will bind them together forever or consume them both?