![]() In the end, only Lena can bring him back from the tragic past that threatens to engulf him. ![]() Abigail's story, which unfolds in 1900, is woven so tightly with Declan's that he finds it difficult to escape her grasp. The cries are followed by voices, particularly that of Abigail Manet, the baby's mother. As Declan digs deeper at the Hall, he often hears a baby crying. Declan encounters an additional challenge in the person of Cajun beauty and bar owner Lena Simone, who has her own dark history and a surprising connection to Manet Hall. But Manet Hall comes with a dark history, and restoring it means uncovering its past, which includes rape, murder and betrayal. ![]() Now, on the eve of his wedding, Declan leaves Boston, the law and his fiancée, buys the decrepit hall and embarks on a mission to restore it with his own sweat, blood and money. Declan Fitzgerald, a Harvard-educated Boston lawyer, has longed to possess Manet Hall ever since he and his friend, Remy Payne, broke into the old place as drunken students on a lark. Triple-platinum romance doyenne Roberts spins a tale of bayou passions old and new in her latest romantic suspense novel, set on the grounds of a dilapidated postbellum mansion outside New Orleans. ![]()
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