It was her aristocratic
beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that
first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect
mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested
from the wilderness.
But as Eugenia learns more of the ruthlessly
ambitious man she has married and the rugged land he has brought her to,
the very elegance and delicacy her husband prized in her soon prove
liabilities. She is appalled by many aspects of plantation life - the
convict slave laborers, the suffocating summer heat, the merciless
winters.
It is a maid who seems to be the real mistress of Yarrabee.
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