“A compelling novel… fast-paced and engrossing…. This is a book that readers will not want to put down….” — Historical Novel Society

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In 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a granite quarry foreman and Union veteran. Louis falls in love with the child’s aunt, and his employer, but she is married, virtuous — unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate.

Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone.

“He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction … and his own inner war…. An intriguing historical romance set in Reconstruction Virginia. Flawless revelation of that time and place.“ — Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy

Praise for Jean Huets’ The Bones You Have Cast Down

Enchanting and richly historical, dazzling and dark, heart-wrenching and intoxicating. — Stuart R. Kaplan, Pamela Colman Smith

A storytelling treasure. Speculative elements are deftly melded into the mix.… Thought provoking as well as entertaining. — Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy

About the author

Jean Huets’ writing has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Millions, Civil War Monitor and other journals. Her books include With Walt Whitman, Himself, The Bones You Have Cast Down: A Novel, At the Fall Line: A Novel, Alt Sagas: Stories, and The Cosmic Tarot book. She is co-founder of Circling Rivers, an independent press dedicated to literary nonfiction and poetry. Visit her at www.jeanhuets.com