One bitter January day in 1880, Antony Fairfax steps off a packet from New Orleans into a frozen, horse-drawn New York where he knows no one. The novel follows this proud son of the South as he seeks out his Northern kinsmen, takes up work, marries, and learns what his pride will cost him and those who depend on him.
A substantial character novel of old New York by an American writer best known for her reporting on working women. Download the free EPUB.