Peachtree Road

<p><strong>A blockbuster of a novel. . . . <em>Peachtree Road</em> is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business culture and progress. . . . To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it justice. More than merely powerful it is mesmerizing enthralling and totally unforgettable. -- <em>Chattanooga Free Press</em></strong></p><p>A masterful tale of love hate and rebellion set in an elite world of class and wealth <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons's <em>Peachtree Road</em> is the unforgettable story of the turbulent growth of a great Southern city and of two people cursed by blood and birth.</p><p>Headstrong independent and devastatingly beautiful Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable will never become the demure Southern lady her family requires--while her older cousin Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III is too shy and bookish a far cry from the suave gregarious Southern gentleman he's expected to be. In the Bondurants' sprawling home on Atlanta's Peachtree Road these two will be united by a fierce tainted love--and torn apart by a smoldering rage fanned by the cruelty of years and the unbending demands of privilege. </p>