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Bayou follows the Leblanc dynasty on a New Orleans plantation where the weight of slavery and family legacy intertwines with forbidden desires. Four generations' fortunes rest on the power they wield over enslaved bodies and souls. Carita Lablanc, the new plantation mistress, discovers a hidden world of mixed‑blood lineage and buried guilt, forcing her to act in a way that shatters her family’s legacy and plunges them into scandal, ruin and murder.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Saliee O'Brien
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