Farewell, My South — Cynthia Van Hazinga

They escaped their wartorn South and embraced the challenge of a strange new land
In a lush tropical paradise the South would rise again, plantations would flourish, and those who had fled their ravaged homes could begin life anew. They came from Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana - wealthy planters invited by Brazil's Emperor Dom Pedro II himself, southern belles who had never soiled their lily-white hands, preachers, rednecks and blacks -- all thought they could escape the past...until fate drove them together again.

Elinor Richler found destiny and desire with a man who had abandoned both... Tyler Ashby, aristocrat and doctor disillusioned by war, this lawless land was his one last desperate chance... Zaidee Richler, with her red-gold hair and wanton ways, she burned with danger and scorched all who touched her... Terrill Ruffin, pledged to exact vengeance on the Klansman who killed his wife, he would first make his fortune as a white man in this strange and complex new world... Jesse Rall, killer, conniver, survivor of the Amazon's perils - only in this savage wilderness could he rise to become the power that would ignite the simmering passions of them...