"In the front ranks of Southern writers While there are hints of Truman Capote and Tennessee WiUiams... Siddons is her own woman."

--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there."

--Peoptemagazine

Leaving behind a disastrous marriage, Diana "Andy" Calhoun moves to the small town of Pemberton, Georgia, "in search of banality." What she discovers, though, is not serenity, but Tom Dabney, a passionate and magical man.

An exuberant poet who worships the wilderness surrounding Pemberton, Tom is everything Andy doesn’t need in her life right now. But despite warnings from friends, Andy is soon deeply immersed in Tom’s life and his world.., a world he will do anything to protect. When Tom declares war on the enemy poisoning his woods, it becomes clear that Andy must choose between her life with Tom and the one she left behind--if Pemberton society will take her back.