On Leaving Charleston

This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga— begun in the bestselling Charleston— traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking abandon and dazzling innocence, Garden dances through Paris, London, and New York as the twenties roar— until betrayal turns the glitter to bitter ash— until vengeful secrets of the past send her home to Charleston, a city waiting to embrace its own or exact revenge.