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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
Published: Feb 2005
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 371
In 1950s New Orleans, beautiful fifteen-year-old Johnnie Wise is sold to a corrupt white insurance man named Earl Shamus, while being pursued by a crime boss who will stop at nothing to possess her, against a backdrop of murder, greed, jealousy, and lust. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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