With an introduction by Mary Anna Evans.
No one knows how her descendants hung onto it through Reconstruction, world wars, the Depression,.
No one knows how Faye\'s great-great-grandmother Cally, a newly freed slave barely out of her teens, came to own Joyeuse in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast.
With an introduction by Mary Anna Evans