Southland — Amanda Carlisle

It was the land of his dreams -- raw, vital, offering unchartered opportunity...where a courageous man could succeed regardless of the class he was born into...where his greatest aspirations, long suppressed by cruel poverty, could be unleashed.

Until, ultimately, the sweet black soil of Louisiana would bear the ripe fruit of his labors, for Ethan Osborne was a man driven to forge his own destiny, raise a proud family, and lay the very foundations for the future of the Sugar South, determined that his dream would not be in vain.