A new edition of Eugenia Price's final novel, presented by Turner
Publishing
From one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an
ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and
loyal readers alike.
Spirited Abigail Banes dreams her newly married life coastal Georgia
will be lived amid spreading magnolia trees, where lovers walk and
whisper along blossom-lined paths. But her dreams are shattered when a
fatal accident claims her husband, Eli, leaving her sole proprietor of
their rice plantation--and the slaves that work the magnificent land.
Forging a new life for herself, Abby finds a new identity--as a feminist
before her time, and abolitionist before there is a way to free slaves.
As she struggles with her inheritance, Abby finds herself turning to her
new overseer, Thaddeus Greene. And, at a time when love is forbidden to
her, Abby realizes Thad is destined to take Eli's place in her heart.
Eli could never have known that by hiring Thad he had given a lasting
gift to his beloved wife--for from the moment Abby gazes into Thad's
penetrating gray eyes, she knows she will never be alone again.
With The Waiting Time, Ms. Price felt she had found the perfect title
for her book, as it captures the dual strands of this entrancing story:
the wait for the beginning of the Civil War and for the end of the time
custom dictates Abby must wait before she and Thad can be together. This
compelling novel, which brings a human face to a nation braced for
Southern secession, embraces the unrelenting passion that marks an
incredible love story.
