Ruby

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken Grandpere Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as sad and solemn as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss, Ruby is grateful for what she has. Her life is filled with hope and promise, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoming into a wonderful love affair. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmere urges Ruby to focus on her dream of becoming a great painter.

AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE LOOMS. A shocking scheme of blackmail and deception. comes to light when Ruby sees her father for the first time in a faded photo- graph. Stunned and devastated when Grandmere dies soon after, iK left to seek out an explanation on her own. Finding her father in his massive New Orleans mansion, Ruby is quickly subjected to his world of lies, torment . . . and madness. Still, she clings to her memories of only true love might be able to save her now. --back cover