This is a pulsating novel of post-Civil War war America which recreates the painful turbulent and ultimately permanent healing process as seen by a group of characters who lived through it all. Flemings novel can appeal the two kinds of readers those fans of history who want their information delivered with color and fantasy and those who want a good double complete with scads of wealthy and spoiled people hot blooded youth financial and political scalawags and occasional dollops of sex. #paperback#fiction