Description: Georgia, 1842. In this grand and passionate era of American history, forged by the dreams of extraordinary men and women, the MacKay, Browning, and Stiles families find themselves experiencing love, hardship, and pain in the great Southern city of Savannah. The willful Natalie Browning Latimer's newfound marital bliss has been threatened by a shattering loss, while the ambitious W. H. Stiles becomes wrapped up in a daring political trail that leads his family into the turmoil of Western Europe. Natalie's brother Jonathan Browning shocks the family by dropping out of Yale to be with the one woman who could never be welcomed into Savannah society. As the families struggle to maintain their deep love for one another, the South struggles to justify its connection to the Union and moves toward succession.
Brief description:
Before making St. Simons Island her home, Eugenia Price, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, was a resident of Chicago with a highly successful career in the thriving area of radio soap-opera programming. The major networks eagerly sought her creative production talents and Price was well respected in the broadcasting world when her life took a marvelous and powerful turn. God began to use her extraordinary writing gifts to communicate her faith with others.
Price's earliest books--Discoveries, The Burden Is Light, and Early Will I Seek Thee--gained her enormous popularity as a speaker at religious groups across the nation and across all denominational lines. Her compelling message was not about doctrine, but about new birth. In rapid succession, she wrote books dealing with Christian living, women's faith perspectives, and devotional themes. Her masterful rephrasing of the entire Bible, Beloved World, went through countless printings. Twenty-six highly personal nonfiction works and fourteen historical novels were ultimately released by the leading publishers of the day.
Eugenia Price died on May 28, 1996, and is buried at her beloved Christ Churchyard, Frederica, St. Simons Island. Following her death, the Eugenia Price/Joyce Blackburn Charitable Foundation was established with Blackburn, also a prolific writer, as president. The Foundation holds all publishing rights in perpetuity. Its sustaining purpose is to ensure the availability of this written legacy for future generations of readers.
Review Quotes: "Romantic . . . entertaining . . . superb!" --The New York Times
"Eugenia Price is a name spoken with affection by millions of readers." --Publishers Weekly
"Newcomers to Ms. Price's work should soon join her legions of faithful readers." --Chattanooga Times
"An engrossing novel of antebellum America . . . richly detailed . . . unforgettable!" --Rave Reviews
"A charming and engaging picture of life in the South." --Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Colorful . . . appealing . . . exquisitely detailed." --Anniston Star