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New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly in...
"April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he i...
"In 1835, the cold February streets glitter with masked revelers in Carnival costumes. An even more brilliant display is promised at the American Theater, where impresario Lorenzo Belaggio has brought the first Italian o...
RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Huseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concub...
Tells the story of the founding mothers of the United States--the wives of the early presidents--and their struggles and compromises as they worked in the shadows of the famous husbands.
"New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down ...
During the October, 1835, political upheavals in Mexico City, a friend of Benjamin January is accused of killing the son of a powerful landholder. Ben and Rose travel south to investigate, in time for the sinister celebr...
A Benjamin January mystery. New Orleans, July 1835. The body of an old freedwoman is found in a decrepit shack. In the wealthy part of town, preparations for a society wedding are finalized. Somehow, these two events are...