Format: Paperback 226 Pages, in Garamond Font.
 
Along the windswept shores of the diminutive island of Martinas in the Caribbean, insidious evil begins in the form of jealousy, competition and hate spreading like wildfire. It vies with the goodness found in love, understanding and compassion - as experienced within the walls of the Convent, St Agnes de Mercié. And it is here, within the sanctified enclosure, that Matthew Lamartine meets Sister Eclette.
 
   As convent bells ring out, two families - the Lamartines and the Wetherbys - form the nucleus of the events, growing, living and loving together. Surrounded by natural beauty of plantation life, amidst the rainforest and rock-strewn seashore environs, it is easy to become enmeshed in the mystery and developing danger.
 
   Corisanda Jones, an orphan living with the Wetherbys, is central to the development of the burgeoning scenario through her growing relationship with each of the family members. Heartfelt and querulous pangs of teenage romance are explored firsthand by her, from lust through to eventual love. As she matures, the pursuit of her romances extends, and she too, is embroiled amidst the contradiction of what is considered good and what is evil - and the almost imperceptible overlay that may exist between the two. Sisters, Annabelle and Fleur Wetherby, are also each caught up in their developing relationships with the Lamartine men.
   
   Grief takes its toll as tragedy unrolls and death grips this island paradise, changing it forever.
 
   Earmarked by the thinking, language and ways of life in the 1800s, after the abolition of slavery, the narrative - sometimes written in the first person - captures the secrets of a time past. Mysteries furtively unfold right through to the last chapter where truth finally prevails, as it must, for the Belles of Lamartine.
 
A Romance Mystery of 55,000 words written for women of all ages.