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. A soulful New Orleans romance about grief, homecoming, second chances, and the song love sings when a woman finally comes back to herself.
Paisley Deveaux returns to New Orleans looking for answers, only to find the father she mourned alive and the truth that breaks her all over again. Gideon Toussaint knows grief too well. Once a husband, once a girl dad, he’s spent years honoring what he lost until Paisley and her daughter Paige walk into his life and make him want more than memories.
Their love is fast, full of softness, Nola heat, and second-line rhythm. Gideon gives Paisley safety. Paisley gives Gideon somewhere soft to land. But Crescent City keeps receipts, and when the past reveals the cruel connection between their families, love becomes the easy part.
Forgiveness is where the real fight begins.
Rich with Nola slang, Black Masking Indian culture, family secrets, grief, and devotion, Indian Red with Wildman Gideon is a love story about what survives when the past comes calling. This is part two to Paisley and Gideon's story. Do not attempt to read as a stand alone.
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. A soulful New Orleans romance about grief, homecoming, second chances, and the song love sings when a woman finally comes back to herself.
Paisley Deveaux returns to New Orleans looking for answers, only to find the father she mourned alive and the truth that breaks her all over again. Gideon Toussaint knows grief too well. Once a husband, once a girl dad, he’s spent years honoring what he lost until Paisley and her daughter Paige walk into his life and make him want more than memories.
Their love is fast, full of softness, Nola heat, and second-line rhythm. Gideon gives Paisley safety. Paisley gives Gideon somewhere soft to land. But Crescent City keeps receipts, and when the past reveals the cruel connection between their families, love becomes the easy part.
Forgiveness is where the real fight begins.
Rich with Nola slang, Black Masking Indian culture, family secrets, grief, and devotion, Indian Red with Wildman Gideon is a love story about what survives when the past comes calling. This is part two to Paisley and Gideon's story. Do not attempt to read as a stand alone.
