Storyville

From turn-of-the-century New Orleans a city renowned for sin seduction and sex comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by The District of Storyville where prostitution was legal--and flourishing. <p/>Kate--young beautiful and abandoned by a man who doesn't love her--finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee a supporter of women's rights who against everyone's advice marries into one of the city's most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place . . . back to The District. <p/>As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself <i>Storyville</i> sweeps across lines of caste and blood money and desire--and into the voluptuous secrets of a city tempting as any on earth. <p/>The novel's atmosphere is redolent of honeysuckle and jasmine café brûlot and cinnamon buns.--<i>Newsday</i>