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Cabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860. He was looked upon with suspicion because he was a Yankee. Then Cabot met redheaded Eden Day.
Theirs was a wild, blind young love at first sight. Whispering in her hair, what did it matter that he was a Northerner and she from the South...
But then came the Civil War. With the tide of battle Cabot returned as an enemy spy. In Eden he found the hatred of a woman who has learned desire.
Could the bitterness of war be softened in the arms of lovers?
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About the author
Helen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe (May 16, 1900 - July 31, 1984) was an American romance novelist. She was best known for her "Williamsburg" series of historical fiction.
Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal. The family moved to New York City in 1918, and "Helen Ricker" changed her name to "Elswyth Thane". She began working as a freelance writer in the 1920s and became a newspaper writer and Hollywood screenwriter. Her first novel, Riders of the Wind, was published in 1926. Her novel, The Tudor Wench, about Elizabeth I of England, was made into a play of the same name.
In 1943 she published the first in her "Williamsburg" series of historical fiction, Dawn's Early Light (1943), which was followed by Yankee Stranger (1944), Ever After (1945), The Light Heart (1947), Kissing Kin (1948), This Was Tomorrow (1951) and Homing (1957). The books covered several generations of two families from the American Revolutionary War up to World War II. In later books, the action moves from Williamsburg to New York City, Richmond, Virginia and England.
On September 22, 1927 she married naturalist and explorer William Beebe, who was 23 years her senior. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the guests at the wedding. Beebe died in 1962, and Thane continued to live on the couple's farm in Wilmington, Vermont. Her final work, Fighting Quaker: Nathaniel Greene, was published in 1972.
Elswyth Thane passed away in 1984 at the age of 84.
