Description: Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the familys New Orleans Mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as a swamp mist. Ruby must be carefuly avoid a venomous enemy; her stepmother, Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her backword up bringing. And Rubys every effort to befriend her twin sister Gisselle- especially since Gisselle's crippling accident- is answered with bitterness and vicious backstabbing....