Anne Rice

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and Black oppression

The Feast of All Saints

Cindy McKee

Beautiful, haunting, captivating- in other words, classic Anne Rice.

Mahogany Skillings

Susan Forsythe

Jennifer Long

Ratri Adityarani

In the days before the Civil War in the old French Quarter of New Orleans there lived the gens de couleur libre, the Free People of Color, a fierce and proud people, descended from slaves and their French and Spanish owners, neither black nor white, but caught between the two - free and yet not free. Among them is Marcel, the mesmeric copper- skinned youth, mercurial, attractive, wild- an artist in the making, he dreams of Paris, and the lure of a brand new art, Daguerrotype. His gentle sister Marie longs for love and marriage in a world ready to sell her charms to the highest bidder. And there is Anna Bella, the beautiful young courtesan; and Dolly Rose, the splendid madame; and Christophe, the brilliant young teacher who has returned from Paris with dangerous ideas.

Amanda Wells

Kymberly L McNabb

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, this colorful and evocative novel captures the lives of the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and black oppression. Reissue. (A Showtime/ABC-TV miniseries, directed by Peter Medak, produced by Anne Rice, starring Forest Whitaker, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Gloria Reuben, & Ben Vereen)

The Feast of All Saints

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