In the fine tradition established by her Southern grandmama, Aurora Daughtry has recently orchestrated the marriage of her eldest sister and facilitated her middle sister's engagement. She also rejoices in her part in transforming the family's dilapidated plantation manor into a luxurious and lucrative resort hotel. Just when it seems there is nothing left to absorb her considerable talent for managing people, in walks federal deputy marshal Zane Sager.But Zane is not at Daughtry H...

Impoverished Southern belle Joelle Daughtry has a secret. By day she has been helping her sisters in their quest to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel after the close of the Civil War. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning articles for the local paper in support of the construction of a Negro school. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and prestige, Joelle knows she is playing a dangerous game.When childhood enemy ...

Five years after the final shot was fired in the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely manage to keep herself, her two younger sisters, and their spinster cousin fed and clothed. With their family's Mississippi plantation swamped by debt and the Big House falling down around them, the only option seems to be giving up their ancestral land.Pinkerton agent and former Union cavalryman Levi Riggins is investigating a series of robberies and sabotage linked to the impoverish...

Joelle Daughtry has a secret. By day, the impoverished Southern belle has been helping her sisters in their quest to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel after the close of the Civil War. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning articles for the local paper in support of constructing a school for former slaves. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and prestige, Joelle knows she is playing a dangerous game. Loyalties shift when S...

These two may have met their match—in each other.In the fine tradition established by her Southern grandmama, Aurora Daughtry has recently orchestrated themarriage of her eldest sister and facilitated her middle sister’s engagement. Just when it seems there is nothing left toabsorb her considerable talent for managing people, in walks federal deputy marshal Zane Sager.But Zane is not at Daughtry House for a vacation. He’s tracking a killer and collecting two k...

A collection of short stories from the National Book Award-winning author of Mating • "Powerful and original...always convincingly authentic. The ironies keep cutting in new directions." —The New York TimesWhether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush’s whites are not sure why they are in Botswana. Their uncertainty makes them do odd things.Driven half-mad by the barking of his neighbor’s dogs,...

Five years after the final shot was fired in the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely manage to keepherself, her two younger sisters, and their spinster cousin fed and clothed. With their family’s Mississippi plantationswamped by debt and the Big House falling down around them, the only option seems to be giving up their ancestralland—until a hotel management agent for the railroad offers her hope for the future.If she’ll turn her home into a hotel...