The Waiting Time (Doubleday Colophon)
After an accident kills her husband, Abigail Banes Allyn becomes the sole proprietor of their Georgia rice plantation and its slaves in the antebellum South, sides with the abolitionists, and finds new love with the plantation's handsome overseer
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Spirited Abigail Banes dreams her newly married life in coastal Georgia will be lived amid spreading magnolia trees, where lovers walk and whisper along blossom-lined paths. But her dreams are shattered when a fatal accident claims her husband, Eli, leaving her sole proprietor of their rice plantation - and the slaves that work the magnificent land.
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