"At the 'Cadian Ball" draws readers into a single charged night on the Louisiana prairie, where desire and social order pull against each other. Bobinôt drags himself to a Cajun dance knowing Calixta — vivid, untameable, and impossible to forget — will be there. When the brooding planter Alcée Laballière arrives fresh from financial ruin, he and Calixta drift into the shadows together, leaving Bobinôt to watch helplessly. But a late-night rider appears out of the darkness, and the evening's alliances shift in ways none of them expected.

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