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.
We were worried that our 14-year-old daughter's strong sexual urges were going to lead her into promiscuous, even dangerous, behavior. Our solution:let her seduce her father, so he could provide a safe, secure outlet for those urges. Unfortunately, my husband's focusing all his energies on keeping our libidinous daughter safe resulted in me being neglected-and very unsatisfied. But then I realized-our daughter has a handsome brother, and I thought, "sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose"