Black Jade
| By Angeline Taylor | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #184 |
| Release Month | 1952 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Evening Street |
| Followed by | Naked Fury |
- Author: Angeline Taylor
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #184
- Year: 1952
Book Description
Told against the warm tropical setting of the Caribbean in the troubled days of the 18th century, this is the story of the rake-hell planter Amler Ballard, and his beautiful, exotic slave-mistress, Jade. Bought at a shameful auction sale, and snatched from under the glittering eyes of his rival bidders, Jade's life soon becomes tied by strange bonds to that of Ballard. The story includes the Haitian Rebellion, and against this savage background there unfolds a tale of love and lust, of cruelty and wantoness and those other virtues and vices which made up that disolute profligacy, so characteristic of society in that time and place. Excitement mounts through the book like the beat of the Voodoo drums, which ever accompanies the story, hinting at savage rites and ceremonies so close under the surface of this "civilized society".
