Louisiana The Riverton big house became the most highbrow of colored families in Louisiana. The women did not shy back serving their mouthwatering Cajun cooking. Front row church pew going country folks, who love whiskey drinking and the blues soon after every Sunday sermon. They attended rowdy family suppers, bawling and loud parties, some dead set against one another with betrayal and deception, and yes, murder, with no love lost. Lara Riverton a hot-tempered heavy-handed matriarch who did not spare the rod, tree switch, branch, log, pistol or whatever she got her hands on. Hard-working, countryfied and prideful woman who rules her house with no back talk. When Lara was a small girl, she cleaned house and scrubbed floors on her hands and knees alongside her aunt for the richest white family in the land, for over thirty years until the day she died. She wanted nothing more but to escape from her boring life servicing the wealthy. Lara was married off to a well to do light skin colored man. She had high hopes he would raise her up from a sorry life, only to find out she married a workaholic half-breed. France Born in the tranquil countryside in Prince La'Rue, Sydni Rousseau grew-up a very entitled and rich white girl with her long blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Her spotless soft skin set her apart from most beauties in the City. But unbeknownst to her beautiful self, she is related by blood to the Riverton's. By faith, a Riverton family member will travel to the other side of the pond and find her. Her beloved Poppa was then forced to tell Sydni she is mixed with colored blood in the presence of her aristocrat friends at her birthday party. Therefore, Sydni is hoodwinked into a loveless marriage to the handsome bachelor; Fredrick Senetti, after her Poppa was murdered from a poisonous pill. Fredrick vowed to protect his lady, no matter her blood is mixed, he will let no sully hussy taint her name and interfere in their life together, he will kill to control her and the Rousseau's Empire.
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