It was made of passions, obsessions, and dreams, a golden-age Georgia plantation that would survive the flames and fury of the Civil War only to face Sherman's fierce guerrilla army...clash with the cunning carpetbaggers and their powerful corruption...seeth with the secret sins, loyalties, and lusts of three generations...and spawn an extraordinary family of men and women, black and white, joined in a kinship more binding than blood, pledged to keep its brilliant legacy alive....

Sarah Kendrick--the warm, passionate mistress of Beulah Land. Her one dream: to rebuild the war-ravaged plantation - and fulfill the family legacy...
Benjamin Davis--Sarah's blue-eyed grandson, determined from his childhood to be his own man, he'll let nothing stand in his way now
Nancy--released from slavery, her beauty and wild spirit leading her to a Savannah brothel; but her heart belonged to Beulah Land--and the boy who would one day be its master
Junior Elk--the powerful, free black man with a fortune in gold - and a raging thirst for revenge on the Kendrick clan
Daniel Todd--the Yankee renegade who fell in love at first sight - with Beulah Land and its rebel lady