HardCover. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Simon & Schuster imming with atmosphere and edgy withsuspense The Rebel Wife presents a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama the where the old gentility masks a continuing war fueled by hatred. treachery. and still-powerful secrets. Augusta anson was born into antebellum Southern nobility during a time of wealth and prosperity. but now all that is gone. and she is left standing in the ashes of a oken civilization. When her scalawag husband dies suddenly of a mysterious blood plague. she must fend for herself and her young son. Slowly she begins to wake to the reality of her new life: her social standing is stained by her marriage; she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence; the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exis...