Esta extensa saga lo transporta a la tumultuosa era de la América colonial, centrándose en las vastas plantaciones de Luisiana. Siga los destinos entrelazados de varias generaciones mientras navegan por el amor, la pérdida y la lucha por la supervivencia contra el poder de la naturaleza y las divisiones sociales. La narrativa retrata vívidamente la dramática evolución de la vida desde los primeros días de asentamiento hasta las complejas dinámicas interpersonales impulsadas por la ambición y los secretos. Es un viaje épico que ofrece una mirada profunda a la resiliencia y el espíritu humano perdurable en tiempos difíciles.
As Judith Sheramy is traveling down the Mississippi River with a group of settlers, she meets and marries Philip Larne, and together they oversee their farm until yellow fever claims the lives of their slaves.
HISTORICAL FICTION. "New York Times"--Bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress--and the men they love--whose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South fallsCorrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher's daughter, she is only fourteen, and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery. At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana, these two women will band together to survive. This is the second novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includes "Deep Summer" and "This Side of Glory."