From Love’s Ashes

2. From Love’s Ashes, the second in the series, takes place in the 1930s in Atlanta in a scandal-ridden society of power brokers, with three male cousins threatening the well-being  of Steppie, who is accused of murdering her husband, Kenna’s half- brother, who has never recovered from World War I. Only Creag, who has loved her from afar, can save her.