In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp. overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability, prosperity, and modernity. Kester Larne is the heir to a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind it. His Southern charm sweeps Eleanor off her feet. Only after they marry does she learn that the plantation is mortgaged to the hilt and she will need every ounce of her ingenuity to save it.
"In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp. overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability, prosperity, and modernity. Kester Larne is the heir to a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind it. His Southern charm sweeps Eleanor off her feet. Only after they marry does she learn that the plantation is mortgaged to the hilt and she will need every ounce of her ingenuity to save it."@en
"A captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South. In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability, prosperity, and modernity. While Eleanor is a member of a modern clan, practical, impatient, and ready for the future, she cannot help but fall for a man steeped in the ways of the Old South. Kester Larne is the heir to Ardeith, a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind it, and his antebellum charm sweeps Eleanor off her feet. Only after they marry does she learn that Ardeith is mortgaged to the hilt and she will need every ounce of her modern ingenuity to save it ... and her marriage. This is the third novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includes Deep Summer and The Handsome Road."@en
"The third volume in the Plantation Trilogy, originally published in 1940, in which Kester Larne and Eleanor Upjohn, young people from very different family backgrounds, struggle to make their mariage work during the World War I years."@en
"The story of a marriage that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old plantation families and those of the new, twentieth-century South."@en
"Brings the story of the Louisiana plantation down to the period following the European War."@en
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