Landry 05 Tarnished Gold

Read Landry 05 Tarnished Gold Storyline:

Growing up in her
beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening
rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her
classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature
Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through
the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret
dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner
Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her
innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the
scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's
frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's
furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the
Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose
mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat
Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment
Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the
swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by
chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp
guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire
Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not
heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she
can bear....