Unowned

She inherited a plantation. He returned to expose its secrets.

Saint-Domingue, 1802. After thirteen years in France, Rosalie Duval comes home to claim Belle-Rivière, her late father's sugar estate. As the mixed-race daughter of a white planter and an enslaved woman, Rosalie is determined to replace cruelty with wages, contracts, and reform. But the people of Belle-Rivière know freedom cannot be granted by an owner.

Mathieu Baptiste knows it too. Once enslaved on the estate, he has returned under a stolen name as a rebel spy. His mission is to uncover a hidden French weapons network. Rosalie should be only another Duval standing between him and liberation-not the proud, infuriating woman he cannot stop wanting.

When French officials threaten Rosalie's inheritance and tighten their hold on the estate, she and Mathieu are forced into a dangerous alliance. Amid secret ledgers, mountain escapes, betrayal, and the approaching battle for independence, desire becomes the one risk neither can measure.

To survive, Rosalie must surrender the power she crossed an ocean to claim. Mathieu must decide whether love can exist when trust began with a lie. And Belle-Rivière must choose what it will become when no one is owned.

Set during the final campaign of the Haitian Revolution, Unowned is a sweeping, slow-burn historical romance featuring espionage, revolutionary action, open-door passion, and a hard-won happily ever after.