The Daughter of Union County: A Novel

A mother's devotion. A daughter's search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South.

In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, she's been born into a secret. Though her father-a man desperate to produce an heir-is white, Margaret's real mother, a wo...