Handsome Road

New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War–era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress—and the men they love—whose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South falls

Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher’s daughter, she is only...