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1st book of " Landry Series" RUBY

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpère Jack.
Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss. Her life is filled with hope and promise... especially when her attraction for Paul Tate blossoms into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmère urges her to follow her dream of becoming a painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will be surrounded with riches in the city of New Orleans! She cannot know how close that future looms....
In a faded photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father -- and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail. Stunned by these revelations, she is devastated when Grandmère dies, leaving her to seek out her father in his New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and cruel torment. Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive.

"We're not doing anything special for supper tonight, Ruby," Grandmère told me. "I hope you didn't give the Tate boy that impression.""Oh, no, Grandmère. Besides,
Paul isn't that kind of a boy. you wouldn't even know his family was wealthy. He's so different from his mother and sisters. Everyone in school says they're stuck-up,
but not Paul.""Maybe, but you don't live the way the Tates live and not get to expect certain things. It's just human nature. The higher you build him up in your
mind, Ruby, the harder the fall of disappointment is going to be," she warned."I'm not afraid of that, Grandmère," I said with such certainty that she paused to gaze at me."You've been a good girl, haven't you, Ruby?""Oh yes, Grandmère.""Don't ever forget what happened to your mother," she admonished....