Josephine almost killed Marie Rose, but couldn’t get herself to murder her own blood, as much as she wished this baby didn’t exist. They dragged and sank her down to the bottom of the bayou. They stage the murder to look like Abigail packed and ran off with a lover. A drunken Julian rapes and murders Abigail in the nursery and Josephine helps him cover it up. The tone is set in these first few chapters as we reach our first heartbreak. She dreams of the way her “petite rose” will be raised a “lady”, she will be accepted, she will have an education, she will belong. Despite hating the living arrangements with Lucian’s family, Abigail is excited to have her daughter Marie Rose grow up a Manet. It is also obvious that Lucian’s brother Julian lusts over Abigail in a way that means to do her harm. It is obvious that Josephine does not approve of her sons union and she despises Abigail. She was once servant of Manet Hall, home to Josephine Manet and her two sons, but fell in love with Lucian, married and had a baby together. The home where the dead linger, where hate and love were found, and what was hidden finally comes to light. Midnight Bayou’s main character is really Manet Hall. Its beauty, Its ugly, its whispers, its secrets. (Oct.In the Prologue we are introduced to the Bayou and all its wonders. Roberts's role reversal-here it is the male character who hears voices and even swoons-gives her faithful readers a little extra thrill, and the lush setting and the satisfying if predictable romance round out the package. In the end, only Lena can bring him back from the tragic past that threatens to engulf him. Abigail's story, which unfolds in 1900, is woven so tightly with Declan's that he finds it difficult to escape her grasp. The cries are followed by voices, particularly that of Abigail Manet, the baby's mother. As Declan digs deeper at the Hall, he often hears a baby crying. Declan encounters an additional challenge in the person of Cajun beauty and bar owner Lena Simone, who has her own dark history and a surprising connection to Manet Hall. But Manet Hall comes with a dark history, and restoring it means uncovering its past, which includes rape, murder and betrayal. Now, on the eve of his wedding, Declan leaves Boston, the law and his fiancée, buys the decrepit hall and embarks on a mission to restore it with his own sweat, blood and money. Declan Fitzgerald, a Harvard-educated Boston lawyer, has longed to possess Manet Hall ever since he and his friend, Remy Payne, broke into the old place as drunken students on a lark. Triple-platinum romance doyenne Roberts spins a tale of bayou passions old and new in her latest romantic suspense novel, set on the grounds of a dilapidated postbellum mansion outside New Orleans.
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