Chronicles the adventure-filled life of Jacques Ducharme, a French fur trapper and river pirate, and the five women whose lives he touches--Annie Lark, whom he rescues in the wake of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake; his second wife Laura; Omah, a freed slave and fellow river raider; Maddie, his young daughter; and Hedie Rails, betrothed to his grandson, Clement. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
It's the early 1930s and teenage Hedie Rails has just married the mysterious Clement Ducharme, the wealthy son of a fur trapper in the remote backwaters of Missouri. As Hedie begins to unearth the dark secrets of Clement's father, a man with numerous wives and mistresses, she also comes to realize that Clement has secrets of his own.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Love + Relationships + Sex, Human Qualities + Behavior, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Types of Characters
- Publisher: Random House, Inc.
- Pages: 408
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: May 27, 2008
- Date Published: May 27, 2008
- Author: Jonis Agee