First published 2018
The Civil War is ending, but its aftershocks still rattle the South. Varina Howell Davis, widow of the Confederate president, flees her once-grand home. She knows her family's name is reviled, her husband's actions unforgivable. With her children in tow, Varina embarks on a perilous journey, pursued by the haunting specter of her past. As she grapples with her complicity, Varina must forge a new identity and confront the weight of her choices. In this gripping historical drama, one woman's reckoning becomes a powerful meditation on the moral complexities of the American experience.
Genres: american-civil-war, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 19th-century
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-complexity, unreliable-narrator
Setting: The South
Period: Civil War
368 pages · Hardcover · Sceptre