# The Second Mrs. Hockaday

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- Authors: [Susan Rivers](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-rivers)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-11-14

## Description

When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation—and the next—began to see their world anew.

## Editions

### The Second Mrs. Hockaday

- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- ISBN: 978-16-1620-736-6
- Published: 2017-11-14
- Language: en_GB