Claudia Ross: 17 books

Dorothy Jones, the quintessential renaissance woman of Jazz Age Harlem, operates an upscale dress shop by day and an exclusive, underworld speakeasy by night from her posh Sugar Hill brownstone. Unable to resist the request of her business associate and mentor, Johnny, Dorothy agrees to hostess an...

New Orleans smolders with the heat, civil unrest, and passion of the 1963 American South. In the Chevalier Garden District mansion, 116-year-old Lela Chevalier Roberts presses on with her narration of the family history to her great-grandson Julian Charles Chamberie. Julian defies Hell and requests...

Julian Charles Chamberie left New Orleans with his father as a 14-year-old boy after the unexpected death of his mother, vowing never to return. Now 24 years old, Julian is compelled to return to the Chevalier Mansion of New Orleans on the eve of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the...