The second blow arrived via a sealed letter from France. Jean Baptiste Ravenswood, her late husband’s brother, had uncovered the truth: the Baron had not died of a fever, but of arsenic poisoning. Jean Baptiste was sailing for Virginia to claim his inheritance, expose the murder, and force the wealthy widow into marriage. If he discovered even a whisper of her affair with an enslaved man, he would hang Josiah from the nearest oak tree and commit Elodie to a madhouse. She had mere weeks to engineer a miracle.Romance
Sensing the blood in the water, Gaspard made his move. The jealous overseer cornered Elodie in the barn, his eyes gleaming with malicious triumph. He had seen her with Josiah. He knew her secret
