Freedom to Love

Louisiana, 1815

Thérèse Bondurant trusted her parents to provide for her and her young half-sister, though they never wed due to laws against mixed-race marriage. But when both die of a fever, Thérèse learns her only inheritance is debt-and her father's promise that somewhere on his plantation lies a buried treasure. To save her own life-as well as that of her sister-she'll need to find it before her white cousins take possession of the land.

British officer Henry Farlow, dazed from a woun...