She won't be back until much later tonight," Maurice told her. "Claudette's plane has been delayed in Baton Rouge. It had taken months to coordinate their schedules.
"I'm afraid not."ĭismay surged within Kristen, who was acting on behalf of the Haywood Museum in New Orleans. Maurice shook his head of neatly trimmed black hair, the expression on his amber-hued face saddened.
#Somebody knocking at my door free
"You certainly have the best of two worlds." Kristen gently tugged her hand free when he gave no indication of releasing it.
It's close enough to New Orleans for business, but far enough away for us to have our privacy." "You'll have to come back and we can give you a tour. "Thank you," he said, obviously delighted. I wish it was daylight so I could see the grounds." "I feel the same way about her." Kristen caught a whiff of expensive cologne as she glanced around the spacious room with its high ceilings, meticulously restored eighteenth-century furnishings, and gleaming Waterford chandeliers. She respects you and your opinion highly." She was amazed to find his hand surprisingly soft. "I think Claudette has the finest collection of nineteenth-century art by people of color in the country."įit and trim in a tailored, gray pinstriped suit, Maurice smiled graciously as he took her hand into his. "Hello, Maurice, I was just enjoying looking at the paintings." Kristen extended her hand. If Claudette had found happiness, Kristen wished her all the best. When her widowed mother had unexpectedly fallen in love with Kristen's godfather, Jonathan Delacroix, Kristen had almost ruined their relationship because of her own recent disaster with love. Kristen hadn't been one of the gossipers. Many thought Maurice had used his charm and good looks to take unfair advantage of Claudette's grief over her father's death several months ago. Not only was he a junior salesman with the insurance brokerage firm she'd inherited from her father, he was ten years younger. Gossip had flowed like a river when he had married the wealthy and middle-aged socialite four months ago. Kristen Wakefield turned from studying the oil-on-canvas painting in the antebellum home of Claudette Laurent to see Claudette's husband, Maurice, striding confidently across the drawing room toward her. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. Told with Francis Ray's trademark emotion and passion, Somebody's Knocking at My Door is a powerful story of betrayal and forgiveness, love and healing. Just exactly how much is her happiness is going to cost her? And yet doubts eventually begin to creep in and she isn't sure which Maurice loves more: her or her money, as his desire for the finer things in life become more and more lavish. Claudette has done her duty to her family and now she wants a little happiness for herself.
But she shocks polite society when she marries a man much younger than herself, a man everyone suspects is only after her money. But before she gets all the dirt, she's going to find out a few things about life, men, and forgiveness she thought she already knew.Ĭlaudette Thibodeaux Laurent comes from old New Orleans money and had always adhered to the family code: honor above all else. Which is why she takes great pleasure working at a local strip club, hoping to expose a few naughty little secrets of the community's upstanding men. The beautiful, but down-to-earth Angelique Fleming has always had to fight to get what she wanted in a world dominated by men and she has the chip on her shoulder to prove it. Then she meets a man from her past, Rafe Crawford.a man battling his own demons and keeping his own secrets. But life is much harder than she expected in the Big Easy. In New Orleans, Kristen believes she now has the opportunity to prove herself and forget a rather disastrous past relationship. Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy family.yet she felt eclipsed by the achievements of her older brother, Adam, a renowned neurosurgeon.
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