She Sings of Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things

Margaret Braithwaite was a rising Regency scholar and an acclaimed author. Thirty years later, she's a one-book wonder, a fifty-something college professor with the dubious distinction of being an expert on Jane Austen, hidden in the shadow of her famous husband and his Civil War novels. "Too young to retire, and too old to start over," Margaret feels as dried up and dead as the neglected gardens her husband took such pride in before he became ill.

Wyck Fitzsimmons is the Asheville landscape...