A Pagan Paradise Cursed by Evil - And Desire She had come to Panama, a luch land of bright birds and blossoms, of voodoo curses and yellow fever. Here, where thousands labored to bring about the centuries-old dream of uniting two oceans, Claire Sagan struggles to clear the name of the now dead husband she had planned to join. Forced to seek a home with the wealthy Jarnacs, Claire witnesses whispered, midnight meetings in the garden.. the madness of the golden-haired, vacant-eyed Angelique.. the brutal murders of servents. And in this fallen garden of the New World, even the love offered by the two Jarnac brothers-passionate, charming Andre, and the brooding Philippe-can be as trecherous as the jade depths of the jungle.