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From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by �the District� of Storyville, where prostitution was legal�and flourishing. Kate�young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn�t love her�finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women�s rights, who against everyone�s advice marries into one of the city�s most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans, somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place�back to the District. As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself, Storyville sweeps across lines of caste and blood, money and desire�and into the voluptuous secrets of a city as tempting as any on earth. �Lois Battle is a born storyteller.��The Washington Post �Storyville comes to lurid life.��Kirkus Reviews