Summary
A Virginia Courtship unfurls like a sun-bleached love letter pressed between the pages of a crumbling ledger: Colonel Fairfax, a man whose heart has ossified around the ghost of a twenty-year-old quarrel, presides over a plantation where every creak of the floorboard is the echo of Constance Llewellyn’s footfall. Constance, now widowed and draped in the dusk-colored silks of experience, returns to the neighboring estate; the very air seems to shiver at the prospect of their reunion. Into this chamber of regret rides Tom, the colonel’s freshly minted nephew, diploma in agronomy and springtime in his veins, ready to sow both crops and kisses. Prudence, the colonel’s ward, is no wilting magnolia; she is matchmaker, sleuth, and captive, turning the pastoral into a crime scene when counterfeiters, led by the velvet-gloved Dwight Neville, scheme to snatch the ancestral acres. Tobacco fields become battlegrounds, parlors become courtrooms, moonlight becomes a spotlight on abduction, escape, and the final tableau where two couples—one seasoned, one dewy—stand framed like cameos against the Blue Ridge dusk.
Synopsis
Colonel Fairfax, who lives on a Virginia plantation with his adopted daughter, Prudence, has remained faithful to the memory of his former fiancée, Constance Llewellyn, with whom he had a misunderstanding twenty years earlier. When Constance, now a widow, returns to the adjoining estate, the colonel plans to sell his home to avoid an embarrassing situation, but Prudence intends to reconcile the couple. Tom, the colonel's nephew, arrives at the plantation following his graduation from an agricultural college, and initiates a romance with Prudence. Meanwhile, neighbor Dwight Neville joins a gang of counterfeiters in an attempt to acquire the colonel's estate. Prudence discovers the plot and is abducted by Dwight, whom she has arrested following her escape. The colonel and the widow are reunited, and Tom wins Prudence.
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