Product Description: With social and political issues providing the foreground of literary studies over the past several years, William Dean Howells has re-emerged as a major author. Yet, among canonical American writers, Howells simultaneously attracts both significant attention and curious neglect...read more

A romantic novel about one Pepper MacNeil who is tired of hearing about the new man in town - until she sees him for the first time, and he soon becomes the most important man in her life. From the author of CARDINAL RULES.