Homeward Winds the River Author:Barbara Ferry Johnson Leah... Heartbroken and tortured by desired for her aristocratic Creole lover, Batiste Fountaine, she flees New Orleans on a paddle-wheeler bound for the North--bound for a new life with James Andrews, the lawyer who saved her from the gallows. — Bus as she ascends the gangplank for the sail upriver, and the first whistle of departure sounds its ... more »mournful tune, she gazes back to the cypress-shrouded levee, where the eyes of a wounded man burn deeply into her own.
Try to forget the eyes said. Someday you will long to sail southward on that river....« less