It's our first holiday from college and my girlfriend and I depart on a long drive to a nice holiday cottage. We decide to have a break from driving, but obviously choose the wrong bar, at the wrong time.
In 1850s New Orleans, a free woman of color slips into a masked ball with a secret and a smile. Amara knows the rules—but tonight, she chooses to break them. When she draws the gaze of Julien Beaumont, heir to a sugar empire built on stolen lives, desire becomes defiance. In a moonlit courtyard, silk falls, truths burn, and power trembles. She carries Haiti in her bones. He carries chains he doesn’t see. But she does.
Peter was having trouble keeping his secretary, who suffers from ADHD, on task. He hates to fire her, but she can't keep getting so distracted she doesn't finish her work. He comes up with a plan to help her so he won't have to replace her...