The immortelles / Gilbert Morris & Lynn Morris

For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both women find the love and security they long for? ebook,book Damita de Salvedo is a fortunate young woman, born to a life of affluence and privilege in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Her beauty, accentuated with a wealth of glossy, jet-black hair, is exceeded only by her brashness. With a firm determination and willful disposition, Damita's spirit is not conducive to discipline, the one thing she desperately needs - and stubbornly resists. With her family in crisis, Damita faces hardships she has never know. Does she have the character and fortitude to meet the responsibilities thrust upon her? Will she sacrifice body and soul to save her family's legacy?