Family Fortune — Mignon G. Eberhart

A great plantation isolated by the Civil War...its young and beautiful heiress...the ruthless brother with whom she struggles for her birthright...the mysterious lover whose claims of distant kinship she can only half believe...the lovely mulatto girl whose kinship she cannot deny...the maze of shameful family secrets and lies through which she flees--pursued by the danger that is her legacy and the savage death that well may be her fate...