
From the author of The Daughter of Union County comes an intimate and heart-pounding novel about two families--one black, one white--colliding against the explosive backdrop of the post-Civil War South. It's been fifty years since the Civil War ended, but...

It is 1913, shortly before the start of the First World War, and Annalaura is alone again. Her gambling, womanizing husband has left the plot they sharecrop in rural Tennessee--why or for how long she does not know. Without food or money and with her future tied to the fate of...

