Red and White roses - symbols of the warring English houses of Lancaster and York are the inspiration for this novel. However this is a decidedly American story - a sweeping saga ala "Gone With the Wind" which spans some 100 years in east Texas.
Second sons of 3 rival English & French families, deprived by primogeniture of their estates, move westward from South Carolina intending to establish a gentile Southern enclave of cotton plantations, timber farms, & mercantile stores.
Prospering and settling into stately homes set back on tree-lined streets, they leave to generations of offspring - family mysteries, supposed curses, and legal disputes - in addition to their land and their money.
An engrossing, good old-fashioned story of love, land, war, family secrets, and destiny.
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