Sitting in St. James Format:Hardcover forsaking all magic and living

forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal

Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front

before you can fly

Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer

This Savage Song begins a two-book saga about finding where we belong

Sitting in St. James Format:Hardcover forsaking all magic and living1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her familys indifference, to sit for a portrait. But there are other important stories to be told on the Guilbert plantation. Stories that span generations, from the big house to out in the fields, of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved.