For Elise

A contemporary romance about a beautiful Louisiana woman with only one heartfelt desire, and the two men in her life who love her so deeply that they'll stop at nothing to see her desire come true.

Just a year out of prison on a work-release program after serving twenty years hard time for killing a man, Reece T. Dubois, now thirty-nine, wanted nothing more than to keep his nose clean and to live in peace. Then he meets the beautiful and sensuous Elise Beauchamp, the young wife of a friendly pastor nearly twice her age, and all bets are off. He struggles between allowing himself to surrender to his desires or to keep his distance, yet slowly but surely he discovers why the pastor had invited him to meet his beautiful wife at their home, and just one look at her sweeps him away in a torrent of passion, pain, betrayal, and for him, the unchartered waters of unrequited but true love.

Elise Beauchamp, thirty-four, always considered herself to be levelheaded and loyal. Although she’s a classic raven-haired beauty, she never considered herself one. She staunchly believes in the sanctity of marriage and was never tempted by another man. Then one evening her husband brings a Work Release Inmate home for dinner…

Leo Beauchamp is the beloved pastor of the Lost Sheep of the Lord Assembly in Caddo Parish who offers his services to the Caddo Parish Work Release House. There he meets Reece and finds the answer that would end his secret suffering and what would finally set him on the path of redemption...