The Beauchamp family had been dead for sixty years before Cora returned to the plantation.
She came from New Orleans, where she taught piano at a girls' school, with a suitcase and a question that had eaten at her like termites: What happened to James? James Beauchamp was her father's older brother. In the winter of 1864, just before the Union soldiers came through the parish and burned half the buildings in town, James had ridden out into the marshes at dawn and never returned. The...
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