Crescent City

von Belva Plain

"Well written, fascinating, rich in plot and characters . . . presents [not only an interesting story, but] a portrait of the Jewish community in the 19th-century South."-Newark Sunday Star-Ledger

She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is at the center of the whirlwind in a spellbinding novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.

"Seductive . . . moves along briskly through the kind of territory her avid readers most appreciate."-Publishers Weekly

"As a romance, Crescent City can't miss!"-The New York Times Book Review