Only after they marry does she learn that Ardeith is mortgaged to the hilt and she will need every ounce of her modern ingenuity to save it. Kester Larne is the heir to Ardeith, a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind it, and his antebellum charm sweeps Eleanor off her feet. While Eleanor is a member of a modern clan-practical, impatient, and ready for the future-she cannot help but fall for a man steeped in the ways of the Old South. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability, prosperity, and modernity. New York Times-bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. This is the third novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includesnbsp Deep Summernbsp andnbsp The Handsome Road.
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