Books like Lady Tara by Leonora Blythe

After losing her family, a seventeen‑year‑old orphan named Elizabeth flees from a Montana wilderness to Philadelphia, pursued by a killer, while her faith, horse, and two pistols become her only allies.

Tara, a beautiful and talented woman who wants life on her own terms, must battle against the legacy of the mistakes of her grandmother and mother, the prejudices and dangers of Whitechapel in the 1960s, and the passionate love she has for a charming wideboy.

Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend examines the daily life of Confederate women and finds it considerably grimmer than the version of it supplied by myth-makers nostalgic for a past that never was. Clinton's last pages offer a penetrating summary of the reasons for the myth's durable appeal. - New Yorker, on cover flap. This captivating volume cuts through romantic myth, combining period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of Southern women during the Civil War. Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the Civil War: the heroic African-American women who struggled for freedom, the tireless nurses who faced gruesome duties, the intriguing handful who donned uniforms, and those brave women who spied and even died for the Confederacy. Photographs, drawings, prints, and other period illustrations bring this buried chapter of Civil War history to life, taking the reader from the cotton fields to the hearthsides, from shrapnel-riddled mansions to slave cabins. Clinton places these women within the context of war, illuminating both legendary and anonymous women along the way. Tracing oral traditions and Southern literature from Reconstruction through our era, the author demonstrates how a deadly mix of sentiment and fabrication perpetuates tales of idyllic plantations inhabited by benevolent masters and contented slaves. The book concludes with Clinton's perceptive and often witty discussion of how, over the years, we continue to embrace mythic figures like Scarlett and Mammy in aspects of popular culture ranging from Hollywood epics to pancake syrup. - Cover flap.

Julie Masterson seeks a daring new experience and meets Daniel Covington, a sophisticated banker whose dominant presence pushes her into a realm of erotic power play that she never knew she craved.