Positioning to take over political, social, and financial power in small towns throughout Mississippi; a plan is hatched to overturn Historic Confederate Pride & power, with Strategic reverse migration from the North.

In the summer of 1962, at a high school graduation party, Bessie Day Hardy is brutally raped.

Fifty years later, the consequences of that horrific night will transition into unforeseen events that will shatter her serene and uncomplicated life.

Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, this novel chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city—Atlanta—and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman.

When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.