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FATE WHISKED RUBY FROM A SIMPLE LIFE IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOU. BUT HER NEW RICHES BRING MORE TREACHERY THAN HAPPINESS...

Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is s elusive s a swamp mist. Ruby must avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother,Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her back water up bringing. And Ruby's every effort to befriend her twin sister Giselle- especially since Giselle's crippling accident- is answered bitterness and viscous backstabbing.

So idyllic Greenwood- the exclusive girls boarding school that her father has chosen for his daughters' senior yer-seems to promise some peace from the conniving Daphne, and maybe even a fresh start with Giselle. But Ruby's kind isn't welcome at greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress, Mrs. Ironwood, plots with her stepmother to make her life miserable. Meanwhile, Giselle is on a mission to break every school rule, leaving Ruby to suffer the humiliating punishments. But Ruby Doesn't lose hope- until a terrible tragedy leaves her alone in world that never really want her. Ruby will have to summon every last ounce of her Cajun strength to reclaim her home, her future and the happiness she once new....