The Second Mrs. Hockaday

When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later Placidia is bound for jail accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? A love story a story of racial divide and a story of the South as it fell in the war The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation-and the next-began to see their world anew.