Title: The Immortelles (The Creoles #2)
First published: 2003
Description: For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both women find the love and security they long for?
Subjects: Fiction, Women, Creoles, New Orleans (La.),1800, 1899, Large type books, Fiction, christian, historical, Creoles, fiction, Louisiana, fiction
Places: New Orleans (La.), Louisiana
LC classification: PS3563.O8742 I49 2003