The waiting time / [print]
Eugenia Price.
- first edition.
- New York : Doubleday, (c)1997.
- 373 pages ; 25 cm.
A pre-Civil War romance whose heroine is Abigail, a Boston blueblood. She marries a Southern rice planter and when he dies Abigail inherits a property with a hundred slaves. Abigail is against slavery, as is the overseer, Thad, which brings them together.