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The Civil War has left the Randle family impoverished, and Chess Randle remains a fierce businesswoman with a patent for a tobacco machine that needs the right partner to succeed. When the ambitious tobacco entrepreneur Nate Richardson offers to marry her, it seems a mutually advantageous arrangement. Yet their alliance plunges them into a cutthroat world of commerce and raw passion, challenging both their ambitions and their loyalties.
Set against the backdrop of post‑War North Carolina, the novel explores the rise of the cigarette industry and the domestic strategies of married couples in a rapidly changing economic landscape.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Alexandra Ripley
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