Foxfire

A captivating story of adventure and romance during the Great Depression from the bestselling author of Katherine. ''Anya Seton takes us into other worlds making us live for a few hours on a grand scale'' (Women''s Journal) Amanda Lawrence is a charming sheltered socialite in the post-Depression New York of the 1930s. But when she falls in love with Jonathan Dartland a part-Apache mining engineer she decides to leave her privileged life behind. Amanda is infatuated with Dart''s strength and self-reliance but she has nothing and nobody to guide her when she follows him to Lodestone. Foxfire is the story of a beautiful New York girl desperately seeking a happy marriage in the played-out mining towns of the arid Arizona desert. It was adapted for the screen and released in 1955 starring Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler. ANYA SETON (19040-1990) was the author of 10 bestselling historical novels: Dragonwyk My Theodosia The Turquoise The Hearth & Eagle Foxfire Katherine Avalon The Winthrop Woman Devil Water and Green Darkness. . Language: English