Description From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for love--the literary love-child of William Faulkner and Dominick Dunne.
Reveling in the secrets, mores, and society of twentieth-century genteel Southern life, The Dying of the Light is a romance, a melodrama, and a cautionary tale told with the grandeur and sweep of an epic Hollywood classic..
But when her handsome, charming Ashton, now grown, returns to Saratoga with his college roommate, the real scandal and tragedy begins.
Her union with Copperton is brief and gives her a son she adores.
Luckily for Diana, fate intervenes.
Carrying the weight of Saratoga and generations of Cookes on her shoulders, she ultimately succumbs to duty, sacrificing everything, including love.
Yet Copperton is cruel as well as vulgar; while she admires his money, she cannot abide him.
Diana knows that marrying him would make the Cookes solvent and ensure that Saratoga will always be theirs.
Seeing the ravishing nineteen-year-old Diana for the first time, he\'s determined to have her.
The mysterious Captain Copperton is an outsider with no bloodline but plenty of cash.
Without a wealthy husband, Diana will lose the mansion that has been the heart and soul of her family for five generations.
Though they are land-rich, the Cookes do not have the means to sustain the estate.
The daughter of Virginia gentry, she knew early that her parents had only one asset, besides her famous beauty: their stately house, Saratoga, the largest in the commonwealth, which has hosted the cr me of society and Hollywood royalty. .
Diana Cooke was "born with the century" and came of age just after World War I. .
It begins with a house and ends in ashes .
Description From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for love--the literary love-child of William Faulkner and Dominick Dunne
