New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A love story inspired by historical characters and actual events, and based on family legends, privately held correspondence and diaries, a story of "the marriage between the wealthy Yankee military adventurer Philip Kearny and Southern belle Diana Bullitt set in the decades preceding the American Civil War. Diana is a courageous and compassionate Kentucky-born beauty (she shoots a stampeding buffalo one day and rescues an orphaned Pawnee Indian baby the next); Philip is a callous and self-involved soldier who's seen battle from Oregon to North Africa. His impulsive proposal to Diana sets the tone for a rocky marriage; early on the couple is tested by heartache (the death…
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A love story inspired by historical characters and actual events, and based on family legends, privately held correspondence and diaries, a story of "the marriage between the wealthy Yankee military adventurer Philip Kearny and Southern belle Diana Bullitt set in the decades preceding the American Civil War. Diana is a courageous and compassionate Kentucky-born beauty (she shoots a stampeding buffalo one day and rescues an orphaned Pawnee Indian baby the next); Philip is a callous and self-involved soldier who's seen battle from Oregon to North Africa. His impulsive proposal to Diana sets the tone for a rocky marriage; early on the couple is tested by heartache (the death of their infant daughter Susan) and Philip's sexual indiscretions. But when Kearny loses an arm during combat in Mexico, his emotional instability and continued infidelity spell doom for the union. (Philip and Diana divorced in the late 1850s, a scandalous act in Victorian times)." (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated. Author's historical note. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0743222822.