Product Description:  "A first-rate choice for fans of intelligent historical romances."—Library Journal, starred review Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is put on trial by her husband, convicted of madness, and sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a compliant Virginia plantation wife...read more

In an obsessive attempt to protect her son from the innumerable dangers of the world, Martha kidnaps him and hides in an isolated cave before reluctantly befriending a detective who has been hired to bring them back home. Reprint.

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At a mystical house where women can find tenderness and men can redeem themselves for past violence, Justin realizes that as his relationship with Charlotte grows, he must confess that he is one of the men who took part in an attack on her. A first novel. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.