Tears Are for the Living — Margaret S. Banister

A GREAT SOUTHERN PLANTATION, AN ARISTORATIC VIRGINIA CLAN -- ANND THE PASSIONATE WOMAN WHO HELD THE FATE OF BOTH IN HER HANDS

Since the earliest settlers, the lush plantation of Fairview had been the home of the Meades, a family of gallant, dashing men and lovely ladies, unbending pride and unblemished honor.

Now, however, an era was ending. The South had fought and lost its struggle for independence. The fields of Fairview stood fallow, the great house looted, the stables empty, the menfolk dead or crippled.

This was the world in which beautiful young Jane Meade would come to womanhood -- to search for love in a time of seething anger and violence, and to build a new way of life amid the ruins of the old…