Blue Camellia — Frances Parkinson Keyes

To build a great empire from a pioneer land of Louisiana took a faith and a will as difficult to possess as a blue camellia. In this, one of Frances Parkinson Keyes' finest novels. Determined men and valiant women wrest from the land a mighty tradition. The story of Brent and Mary Winslow is an epic of America. In the countryside rich with a French, Indian, and Negro heritage, the couple endure incredible hardships to become it's foremost citizens. It is in the second generation, in the tragic story of their beautiful daughter Lavinia-- torn between two men, and to find the blue camellia.