At the Fall Line - Huets, Jean

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Résumé :
He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction ... and his own inner war.... An intriguing historical romance set in Reconstruction Virginia. Flawless revelation of that time and place. - Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy In 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a Union veteran and foreman of a family-owned granite quarry. Louis falls in love with the child's aunt, and his employer, but she is married, virtuous - unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate. Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone....

Biographie:
Jean Huets' writing has been published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, The Rumpus, Civil War Monitor, and other journals. She is author of With Walt Whitman, Himself, The Cosmic Tarot book, The Bones You Have Cast Down, and co-author, with Stuart R. Kaplan, of The Encyclopedia of Tarot. She co-founded Circling Rivers, which publishes poetry and literary nonfiction. ?Visit JeanHuets.com...

Sommaire:
Fast-paced and engrossing.... Once started, this is a book that readers will not want to put down. Historical Novel Society In 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a granite quarry foreman and Union veteran. Louis falls in love with the child's aunt, but she is married, virtuous - unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate. Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone. He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction ... and his own inner war.... An intriguing historical romance set in Reconstruction Virginia. Flawless revelation of that time and place. < five stars > - Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy Tears and applause for a breathtaking work of literary fiction! < five stars >...