When your first unrequited love could possibly be your last… When Marcelle Boudreaux walked into the bar to meet up with her friends and family on Christmas night, she never dreamed she’d be face to face with her high school crush who she hadn’t been able to shake in fifteen years. Though she’d pined for him, the first and only words he’d spoken to her had been a profession of love made out the window of a speeding car on his graduation night, leaving her in unrequited torture for years. Now, she stands face-to-face with him, ready to speak her first words ever to him. Even though she’s now a Hollywood producer who commands a major television production in her day job, she finds the only word she can utter is, “Hi.” As he’s pulled into another conversation, she realizes she might be once again letting her chance with Patrick Lamontagne slip away. Back in high school, Patrick’s anxiety had paralyzed him from talking to girls, most notably, Marcelle Boudreaux. If it was possible to love someone he saw every day but never spoke to, that was what had happened for him. Social Media tells him she lives the Hollywood life, so even though he’s now versed in asking women out, that old high school anxiety creeps back in. Going another moment without talking to the only woman he's never forgotten isn’t an option. He will talk to her tonight, and if all goes as he’s always dreamed, he will turn his first love into his last. Frenchmen Street First is a bonus novella in the Broussard Brothers world. The series is set in the Big Easy and features three hot brothers and two interconnected New Orleans families with enough drama to fuel a Mardi Gras float. While Frenchmen Street First picks up where the last novel in the series ended, it features a new couple and can be read as a standalone.

"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal

Bourbon? Calliope? St. Claude? Craps Street??! New Orleans history, legend, and myth are humorously and colorfully told through its street names, in a famous book all the locals grew up with — and tourists will enjoy — by cartoonist and humorist John Churchill Chase. The new ebook edition takes Chase's second and best edition and makes it more usable to the digital reader, adding a fully-linked index, active Contents, linked notes and cross-references, all the cartoons from the original, and more. It is searchable and properly formatted for e-readers, pads, and smartphones, and features all the drawings and map sketches of the original Second Edition, even including (unlike other versions) the cover inset drawings and the original dustjacket. A quality digital republication from Quid Pro Books and its Quaint Press imprint, this ebook still makes locals and visitors laugh while learning the sometimes embarrassing truths behind the people, neighborhoods, avenues, and "neutral grounds" of the hodgepodge that became New Orleans. "Once upon a time," Chase writes, "while minding my own business drawing historical cartoons, I became intrigued with the realistic manner in which the street names of New Orleans told my city's lusty history...." He closes his preface thanking his wife, "who says that she does so believe that I was at the library all the times I said I was, and not at the Sazerac Bar. I also wish to thank the bartenders of the Sazerac Bar." This classic work is funny yet very informative. And in its new digital format with special features from Quid Pro Books, it serves as a great guide to the city's pathways to the present.

Leaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny travel through rows of vibrantly colored Greek revival and Creole-style homes. For decades, this stunning architectural display marked an entry into a more authentic New Orleans. In the first complete history of this celebrated neighborhood, Scott S. Ellis chronicles the incomparable vitality of life in the Marigny, describes its architectural and social evolution across two centuries, and shows how many of New Orleans’s most dramatic events unfolded in this eclectic suburb. Founded in 1805, the Faubourg Marigny benefited from waves of refugees and immigrants settling on its borders. Émigrés from Saint-Domingue, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, in addition to a large community of the city’s antebellum free people of color, would come to call Marigny home and contribute to its rich legacy. Shaped as well by epidemics and political upheaval, the young enclave hosted a post–Civil War influx of newly freed slaves seeking affordable housing and suffered grievous losses after deadly outbreaks of yellow fever. In the twentieth century, the district grew into a working-class neighborhood of creolized residents that eventually gave way to a burgeoning gay community, which, in turn, led to an era of “supergentrification” following Hurricane Katrina. Now, as with many historic communities in the heart of a growing metropolis, tensions between tradition and revitalization, informality and regulation, diversity and limited access contour the Marigny into an ever more kaleidoscopic picture of both past and present. Equally informative and entertaining, this nuanced history reinforces the cultural value of the Marigny and the importance of preserving this alluring neighborhood.

A conclusion to the urban fantasy series set in post-Katrina New Orleans finds former wizard sentinel DJ Jaco struggling to keep the elven leader, Quin Randolph, focused on peace while rival princes battle for power in the leaderless Faerie world.

The complete Broussard Brothers collection, including a bonus novella! Grumpy Beignet Boss: A Second Chance Steamy Romance: He’s betrayed her before, but she won’t fall into his trap again… In order to start her own healthy junk food restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Peyton Boudreaux must trudge back home to New Orleans to claim her trust fund with her tail between her legs. But before the money is hers, she’s got to complete the required hours, cleaning grease traps and mopping floors at Boudreaux’s: Home of the Chocolate Hazelnut Beignet. On top of that, she must face the CEO of the dual family business – former love of her life, Braxton Broussard, Traitor. He shot her down both romantically and professionally years ago, and now he’s the one whose butt she’s got to kiss. Tropes found in this book: Grumpy/Sunshine Boss/Employee Childhood Crush Renewed First Love Unrequited Love Opposites Attract French Quarter Flirt: A Friends to Lovers Steamy Romance He’s New Orleans’ biggest player. She just needs to control the game. When Garrett Broussard and Savannah Sanderson are mistaken for a romantic couple and asked to attend a formal dinner that could boost Savannah’s career, Garrett capitalizes on the opportunity, trading a date for a date. He’ll attend the formal dinner if she’ll help him get his boss off his back, who wants to set Garrett up with his daughter. It’s a weekend trip, and they’ll have to share a room to make the fake relationship seem legit. He’ll just sweep the little crush he’s had on her all these years under the rug and pretend she’s not hot at all walking around in his Saints T-shirt and no shorts. Tropes found in this book: Friends to Lovers Fake Relationship Opposites Attract Guy Falls First All Grown Up Sworn Off Relationships Banter Bourbon Street Bachelor: An Enemies to Lovers Steamy Romance Calliope’s been hurt too many times to let another man in, but Quentin Broussard’s about to turn her world upside down. After having been forced out of New Orleans eighteen years ago, Quentin Broussard is now free to come back and reconnect with his family. But not all of them have such open arms. He would have left already if it weren’t for Calliope, who is healing a part of him he didn’t realize was broken. She’s been hurt many times before and is guarding her heart accordingly. He’s got to figure out how to break down her walls and make her his, because now that he has experienced a world with Calliope Koch, he refuses to go back to one without her. Tropes found in this book: Enemies to Lovers Guy Falls First Ex-boyfriend’s Brother Afraid to Commit Cinnamon Roll Hero Rejected As Unworthy by Parents Sworn Off Relationships Frenchmen Street First: A First Love Steamy Romance When your first unrequited love could possibly be your last… Even though Marcelle Boudreaux is a big Hollywood producer now, standing before her high school crush, words escape her just like they did all those years ago. Patrick Lamontagne’s old high school anxiety creeps back in, but going another moment without talking to the only woman he's never forgotten isn’t an option. He will talk to her tonight, and if all goes as he’s always dreamed, he will turn his first love into his last. Tropes found in this book: Unrequited Love Return to Hometown/Reunion Romance The One That Got Away Long Distance Relationship Childhood Crush The Broussard Brothers series is set in the Big Easy and features three hot brothers and two interconnected New Orleans families with enough drama to fuel a Mardi Gras float.

This presentation of the neighborhoods of New Orleans offers an expert's perspective on the city's architectural diversity and details, one block at a time. New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Bruno presents the best of her "StreetWalker" column in this illustrated resource. From the Garden District to Mid-City, each block included features photographs of the homes, a description of the buildings, and a map for easy access.