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"Billy Ray unwrapped an Arturo Fuente cigar and clamped it between his teeth. He closed his eyes momentarily and enjoyed the strong tobacco, let it calm him. A small voice inside, barely audible, told him to hit the door and not look back, anyone with half a brain could see Cole Parker and Darian Tonelli had been up to some big-time games, dangerous games."

"Baked Alaskan" is a page turner Billy Ray Dent is a terrific lead character, everything a man should be. And he's got his hands full with Ms. Darian Tonelli. This girl is a firecracker.in every sense of the word. But will they have...

William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough.

Scarborough shows how Allston, in the four decades before the Civil War, converted a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire of seven rice...

William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history -- the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families,...