Ruby
The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving gaurdian, Grandmère Catherine, a cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpère Jack. Growing up next to the bayou in Houma, Louisiana, Ruby has very few possessions, but she is happy for all that she has. Ruby finds an old photo of her father, whom she has never seen before. When Grandmère dies, Ruby leaves the bayou and goes in search of her father, who lives in New Orleans. There, in a house of lies and cruel torment, Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive.. For only their love can save her now.
Pearl in the Mist
Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in he love of the faher she had never known... Ruby must also carefully avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother, Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her backwater upbringing. And Ruby's every effort to befriend her twin sister, Gisselle, is answered with bitterness and vicious backstabbing.. Ruby is sent to Greenwood, an exclusive private school where Daphne plots with Mrs. Ironwood -the legendarily strict headmistress- to make every moment of her life miserable. Then Ruby is once again struck with a terrible tragedy leaves her alone in a wold that never really wanted her. Ruby will have to summon every last ounce of he Cajun strength to reclaim her home, her future, and the happiness she once knew...
All That Glitters
Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate - her first love, whom she was forced to abandon - is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisked her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone... Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met... Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own...
Hidden Jewel
Pearl hopes for happiness, but destiny is drawing her deep into the shadows of her family's tainted past... The sultry Louisiana heat cannot dispel her family's sinful legacy, or the cruel accident that befalls one of Pearl's twin brothers. Then the bayou that caught him in its spell beckons her mother, Ruby, who flees, tormented, back to her Cajun roots. With Pearl's other brother deathly ill, and her father retreating into his own bourbon-soaked world, Pearl's cherished dreams swirl away with the hurricane winds... Seeking her mother and the shocking truths of her heritage, she finds a blessed refuge in the arms of a Cajun man, the gentlest friend she has ever known. But only when the storm clouds clear can she savor the springtime sweetness that always, always seems beyond tomorrow.
Tarnished Gold
Her highschool graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her near a secluded pond and shatters her sweet innocence forever... Pregnant and desolate, Gabriel agrees to let Octavious's frigid wife Gladys pretend she's the one expecting, and claim the baby as her own. Hiding in a tiny room in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable, awaiting visits from her Mama, whose reputation as a Cajun healer gives her an excuse t treat Gladys Tate's "pregnancy". But nothing is more wrenching than the moment when Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. A twilight gloom settles in Gabriel's soul, until a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionare Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, she does not heed the warning voice: he may bring more grief than she can bear...
