New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971). Hardcover - A novel which explore racism and the after-effects of slavery by the writer best known for her award-winning "A Wrinkle in Time" - the story "of a young British bride in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she's joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Renier's rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family. . .. Trapped in a world unlike anything she's ever known, vulnerable Stella attempts to uncover her new family's dangerous secrets and stirs up a darkness that was meant to stay buried." 344 pp. ISBN: 0-374228051.