Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel Landry is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her mother and her conniving, whisky-drinkng father. Then rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her near a secluded pond and shatters her innocence, for ever...
Pregnant and desolate, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's frigid wife, Gladys, to claim the baby as her own-but nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away.
Drifting in a world of gloom, Gabriel is only comforted by chance glimpses of her son, until a hunting party brings handsome Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear...
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