The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel

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.

Author: Susan Rivers

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Publication Date: November 14, 2017

Number of Pages: 288 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1616207361

ISBN-13: 9781616207366