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Simon & Schuster
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1451629516
EAN: 9781451629514
Kindle: B005GG0K4Y
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Historical | Fiction
Brimming with atmosphere and edgy suspense, The Rebel Wife
presents a young widow trying to survive in the violent
world of Reconstruction Alabama, where the old gentility
masks a continuing war fueled by hatred, treachery, and
still-powerful secrets. Augusta Branson was born into
antebellum Southern nobility during a time of wealth and
prosperity, but now all that is gone, and she is left
standing in the ashes of a broken civilization. When her
scalawag husband dies suddenly of a mysterious blood plague,
she must fend for herself and her young son. Slowly she
begins to wake to the reality of her new life: her social
standing is stained by her marriage; she is alone and
unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial
prejudice and violence; the fortune she thought she would
inherit does not exist; and the deadly blood fever is
spreading fast. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she
knows is hiding something, and Augusta needs someone to
trust. Somehow she must find the truth amid her own
illusions about the past and the courage to cross the
boundaries of hate, so strong, dangerous, and very close to
home. Using the Southern Gothic tradition to explode
literary archetypes like the chivalrous Southern gentleman,
the good mammy, and the defenseless Southern belle, The
Rebel Wife shatters the myths that still cling to the
antebellum South and creates an unforgettable heroine for
our time.
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