A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.
Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and...

When murder and mayhem plague St. Cecil's Church, Roche Savage, a renowned psychiatrist with a dark secret, and widow Bleu Labeau, a reticent teacher who has come to Toussaint to start a new school, join forces and uncover the deadly truth about their town.

When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.

An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked when her work on the skull of a newly discovered victim reveals a face nearly identical to that of Jane, her adopted daughter with detective Joe Quinn, and the situation worsens when Eve and Joe learn Jane has been targeted by a serial killer obsessed with women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress in ancient Rome.