Crescent City
A Novel
Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Contemporary Women, Romance, Romantic Suspense
| Author: | Belva Plain | ISBN: | 9780307574497 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group | Publication: | June 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Dell | Language: | English |
| Author: | Belva Plain |
| ISBN: | 9780307574497 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Dell |
| Language: | English |
“Well written, fascinating, rich in plot and characters . . . presents [not only an interesting story, but] a portrait of the Jewish community in the 19th-century South.”—Newark Sunday Star-Ledger
She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is at the center of the whirlwind in a spellbinding novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.
**“Seductive . . . moves along briskly through the kind of territory her avid readers most appreciate.”—Publishers Weekly
“As a romance, Crescent City can’t miss!”—The New York Times Book Review**
“Well written, fascinating, rich in plot and characters . . . presents [not only an interesting story, but] a portrait of the Jewish community in the 19th-century South.”—Newark Sunday Star-Ledger
She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is at the center of the whirlwind in a spellbinding novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.
**“Seductive . . . moves along briskly through the kind of territory her avid readers most appreciate.”—Publishers Weekly
“As a romance, Crescent City can’t miss!”—The New York Times Book Review**
