The girl from Storyville

From the very beginning fate drove Fannie Turner in a most terrible way. Her life circumstances, family, even her own desires conspire to drive her into the depths of shame and despair. Fannie had not the slightest inkling of how to halt or even slow her descent into hell. Deserted by her prostitute mother, Fanny confuses her need to find love and respectability with behavior that invites only betrayal and humiliation. She seems fated to work in Storyville, the notorious New Orleans red light district at her mother's house of prostitution. Even the aristocratic Phillippe Sompayac, who offers Fanny a way to a respectable life is damned for even knowing her.