Varina

From the internationally bestselling author of Cold Mountain comes another incredible book. Varina is an epic portrait of Jefferson Davis’s second wife, a woman who essentially becomes a fugitive when the Confederacy begins to fall. She flees Richmond with her children, trying to reach Cuba where they will be safe. When Varina wed Jefferson Davis, she had no idea she’d be anything but the wife of a Mississippi landowner, but that isn’t what the future held for her. With the country and her marriage in tatters, Varina struggles to make sense of how she ended up one of the most hated women in America.