The Brazen Baroness

In New Orleans the beautiful and wealthy Micaela Almonester, at age 15, is forced by her socially ambitious mother to marry a week-willed French nobleman. Defying her scheming, domineering father-in-law who plots to wrest her money and property from her control, Micaela flees his dark opressive chateau for the gaiety of Napoleonic Paris but is forced to leave her children behind. Can she find a way to rescued them, save her fortune, and return to the beloved city of her birth where a clandestine love awaits?