From the back cover of book-The Mannings-Patriots and Traitors, Royalists and Rebels, in a country swept by Winds of War. They had wrested their fortune from the teeming swamps and rich, red earth of South Carolina. Now Drew, the hot-blooded adventurer, and Gwynne, his passionate young wife, were ready to risk everything for a dream of freedom. Even as John clung doggedly to the fading standards of the royalist past...as Joanna stood ready to betray her own blood for vengeance's sake...they shared one noble heritage, one magnificent destiny-one family torn between ties of blood and the rousing challenge of the Drums of December. With bold spirit and raw courage, they had conquered a wilderness. Now they would have to fight to make a nation...This was an alternate selection of the Doubleday Book Club.
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