Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
About the Author
Also by Anne Rivers Siddons
Copyright
About the Author
Anne Rivers Siddons is the author of seventeen New York Times bestselling novels, including Off Season, Sweetwater Creek, Islands, Nora Nora, Low Country, Up Island, Fault Lines, Downtown, Hill Towns, Colony, Outer Banks, King’s Oak, Peachtree Road, Homeplace, Fox’s Earth, The House Next Door, and Heartbreak Hotel. She is also the author of a work of nonfiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. She and her husband, Heyward, split their time between their homes in Charleston, South Carolina and Maine.
ALSO BY ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS
Fiction
Islands
Nora, Nora
Low Country
Up Island
Fault Lines
Downtown
Hill Towns
Colony
Outer Banks
King’s Oak
Peachtree Road
Homeplace
Fox’s Earth
The House Next Door
Heartbreak Hotel
Sweetwater Creek
Off Season
Nonfiction
John Chancellor Makes Me Cry
Copyright
Here, the excerpts from the poem “Labysheedy” (“The Silken Bed”) by Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, are from her book entitled Rogha Danta/Selected Poems, published by New Island Dublin. Used by permission.
Yeats quotes throughout are reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, revised by W.B. Yeats. Copyright (c)1933 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. All rights reserved.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright (c) 2011 by Anne Rivers Siddons
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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