The willing widow
By: by Ursula LeCoeur
Series: Love in New Orleans
Publisher: Royal Street
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781496103666
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Relations entre hommes et femmes; Romans, nouvelles; Meurtre; Enquêtes
Description: Renee Desselle is a beautiful young widow who owns a thriving French Quarter millinery. Irishman William Collins is a newcomer to New Orleans who manages his uncle's prosperous cotton brokerage. Each harbors a secret that makes a new love impossible. In the midst of the city's preparations for the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884, Renee assists a desperate society matron who is being stalked by a mysterious stranger. William undertakes the search for an embezzler on the Cotton Exposition Committee. As their investigations intertwine on a path that leads to love&#x2014;and murder, passion ignites between Renee and William.