Heir to Falconhurst

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc. - A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 448 Pages. Tight square book with no marks or stamps. Pages are white and bright. Covers show light wear. A sweeping, searing novel of the post Civil War South, this book tells lthe spellbinding story of the decline of the notoious slave-breeding plantation, and of its resurretion at the hands of a man called free, but still enslaved to ancient tradition, a man called black despite the whiteness of his skin, a man who falls desperately in love with the passionate Mustee wife of his sadistic overseer. Its towering hero, descended from slaves on one side, and from the flower of Southern aristocracy on the other bears a name familiar to the millions of readers of the other great books in the Falconhurst Saga -- Drum Maxwell.