Deep Summer — Gwen Bristow

Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne--cavalier and slave smuggler.

The story of Judith and Philip is one of struggle--the passionate struggle of their stormy marriage, their struggle from jungle cabin to plantation mansion, and the struggle of revolution. Two abiding passions held them together--their love and their dream of an empire in the Louisiana jungle. When their triumph came it was bitter, menaced always by the hatred of both whites and blacks.