The Willing Widow

Renee Desselle is a beautiful young widow who owns a thriving French Quarter millinery. Irishman William Collins is a newcomer to New Orleans who manages his uncle's prosperous cotton brokerage. Each harbors a secret that makes a new love impossible. In the midst of the city's preparations for the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884, Renee assists a desperate society matron who is being stalked by a mysterious stranger. William undertakes the search for an embezzler on the Cotton Exposition Committee. As their investigations intertwine on a path that leads to love—and murder, passion ignites between Renee and William.