Dennis McFarland

Leaving his schoolteacher sister and his baseball career to serve in the Civil War, young Summerfield Hayes struggles with secret feelings for his sister throughout grueling battlefield experiences and while seeking shelter and a sense of identity after being abandoned by his comrades.

Plagued by nightmares following his brother's death, Martin embarks on a search that takes him from California to New York to the estate of his wealthy, alcoholic parents in Virginia.

A brother and sister return to their Southern hometown to rescue their younger sister from her marriage to an evangelical preacher-only to find their expectations turned completely upside down. The Owen children long ago left their gracious family home in Point Clear, Alabama, in favor of points north. But, when their father takes ill, the youngest, Bonnie, who has spent a decade in Manhattan as an unsuccessful actress, returns to care for him. Soon...