Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fable "The Little Mermaid", the story is set on a lush and beautiful Caribbean island and tells the tragic yet lyrical tale of the impossible love of a rich boy from the city and a poor peasant girl.

"Nora Roberts enters the Danger Zone with two novels of passion and intrigue in one volume"--Back cover.

A novel of Martinique through the eyes of its people. Narrated by a black woman activist, the story spans 150 years, describing the end of slavery, the collapse of the sugar plantations, the coming of the oil companies and the new relations with France, of which the island is a department. By the author of Creole Folktales.

Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, and the caramel flan that Mama sneaked home from the plantation kitchen. Luisa's father, fearing revolution, takes his family to New York. In the barrio...