Unforgettable people locked in the passions of love--and war.Clayton: The handsome Northerner who is bound by love and honor to fight for a cause that he does not believe in.Lettie: The lovely heiress who will pay any price, endure any shame, to hold onto the South she loves.Cotton: Born poor, he has never owned a slave, yet fights beside the aristocrats who scorn him--and finds the woman of his dreams.Fanny: The beautiful young slave who loves a white man more than the promise of freedom.Rufus: The young man who loves Fanny and whose devotion to his white owner will be sorely tried.Patrick: The man who hates his own slavery, and will do everything he can to destroy the South.Angela: The stunning Cherokee princess who is shunned by both the North and the South, and by the man whose love she craves.Their lives are irrevocably entwined by a war they neither wanted nor understood, by love that dared to cross the barriers of class and race, and by a way of life that disappeared with...The Last Plantation