Paisley Deveaux left New Orleans with her daughter, her grief, and a heart she swore stayed buried beside the husband who betrayed her. Four years later, Carnival brings her back home to Tremé, where gumbo simmers, bounce music spills into the streets, and every familiar corner remembers who she used to be.
But then Gideon Toussaint opens her mama’s front door. A widower, engineer, and former Wildman of the Choctaw Rebels, Gideon knows what grief can steal from a person. Paisley’s guarded, stubborn, and fine enough to test every bit of his restraint. He’s patient, intentional, and bold enough to ask for the one thing she left in a crypt years ago: her heart.
Between Endymion lights, Mardi Gras Indian tradition, family secrets, and a love that moves faster than either of them planned, Paisley and Gideon find something tender, messy, sensual, and healing.
This is one of Rae’s first books. uiA soulful New Orleans romance about grief, homecoming, second chances, and the song love sings when a woman finally comes back to herself.
Paisley Deveaux left New Orleans with her daughter, her grief, and a heart she swore stayed buried beside the husband who betrayed her. Four years later, Carnival brings her back home to Tremé, where gumbo simmers, bounce music spills into the streets, and every familiar corner remembers who she used to be.
But then Gideon Toussaint opens her mama’s front door. A widower, engineer, and former Wildman of the Choctaw Rebels, Gideon knows what grief can steal from a person. Paisley’s guarded, stubborn, and fine enough to test every bit of his restraint. He’s patient, intentional, and bold enough to ask for the one thing she left in a crypt years ago: her heart.
Between Endymion lights, Mardi Gras Indian tradition, family secrets, and a love that moves faster than either of them planned, Paisley and Gideon find something tender, messy, sensual, and healing.
This is one of Rae’s first books. uiA soulful New Orleans romance about grief, homecoming, second chances, and the song love sings when a woman finally comes back to herself.
