She brought you sizzling romantic suspense with GUILTY PLEASURES and THE BEST REVENGE. Now bestselling author Stella Cameron takes you to America's most sensuous city for a searing tale of scandal and revenge. Set in lush and languid New Orleans, FRENCH QUARTER is the story of Celina Payne, a talented and beautiful woman thrust into a harrowing world of murder and deceit, who must not only fight for her life and her future, but fo the soul of a man who could fulfill her entirely-or ruin both their lives.
Celina Payne still celebrates the day she met visionary New Orleans business man Errol Petrie. When Petrie haired her to represent Dreams-a company that caters to the whims of the wealthy and uses the profits to fund the wishes of dying children-he rescued her from a domineering mother and the suffocating world of high society. But Celina's new-found happiness is shattered too soon. Arriving one morning at Petrie's opulent French Quarter mansion, Celina finds him dead-with all the evidence of a night of sexual excess around him-and is hurled into an unimaginable nightmare.
In the days and weeks that follow, Celina will be hounded by a cadre of scandal-hungry reporters who smell sensation in her boss's flamboyant death, and stalked by a ruthless politician who sees a way to turn her vulnerability to his advantage. But most of all, Celina finds herself fleeing Jack Charbonnet, Petrie's business partner and best friend. The bitter and volatile Charbonnet is certain that Celina is hiding something about his old friend's murder and will stop at nothing to discover what it is. Jack is right about one thing. Celina is keeping a secret-one that makes her heart swell with tenderness and sorrow-and one she is determined to keep.
In the sultry heat of the bayou, amid the gothic buildings of the old French Quarter, passions tangle, as Jack and Celina draw dangerously close to the truth about Errol Petrie-and alarmingly close to each other. And when Jack's ties to New Orleans's underworld come back to haunt him, he will find himself trapped with Celina in a world more twisted, more starkly evil than even he could ever have imagined.
With America's most intriguing and mysterious city as its backdrop, FRENCH QUARTER delivers chilling suspense, seething sensuality, and an utterly compelling love story. This is a compelling tale of a woman who dares to break more than one unwritten rule.
