Shadows on the Teche by JoAnn Lordahl

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Shadows on the Teche by JoAnn Lordahl

– this edition was republished in 2023 and is new from the printer.

Felecia LeBlanc, in the summerhouse behind The Shadows, watched the Louisiana Bayou Teche flow by, carrying her memories and anticipations. The summerhouse was supposed to be haunted. As a child she’d heard that, but how or why she never knew. The swollen red water and the summerhouse held many associations. On these steps, she and Etienne had decided to marry when they were older. And right out there Blaze Devalcourt came down the bayou paddling that log pirogue he’d hollowed out himself.

Those years ago when she and Etienne told Blaze their marriage plans he’d laughed. Then, shaking the coal-black hair out of his eyes he invited them for an engagement boat ride. Delighted, she and Etienne had scrambled into his small unsteady log canoe. Sure enough, in the exact center of the bayou, the crude boat overturned.

Felecia, coming up furious as a cat, yelling and hitting about wildly, knew Blaze tipped over his pirogue on purpose. But Etienne only laughed lazily – laughter, which to her further fury joined Blaze’s hooting and hollering. She’d hated them both. Even now those memories were razor-fresh.

What was Blaze like now? So long since she’d heard of him.

It was a long return journey she’d made from Nova Scotia, Canada, to this summerhouse in New Iberia, Louisiana. Long, in more than pure physical distance. This was a crossroads in her life. No requirement now to stay in Nova Scotia. She was free to face the past, to make a new future. A child when she left Louisiana, she was a woman now returning to her old home area and her childhood love, Etienne. Or rather, trying to return. Where was he?

The paperback measures 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches with 188 pages.

If you would like to know more about this author and her other books please visit her website: https://joannlordahl.com/

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