Love Never Forgets

De: Ken Lord

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Nine-year-old Mary Frances Cammack, the youngest daughter of cotton plantation owner Justus, wishes to marry Cyrus Grantham, age seventeen, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. He’s called to the Confederate Cavalry, headed toward Gettysburg. The Civil War’s most decisive battle is about to begin. The Cammack Mansion, scene of many social events, is beset by gloom, as both a stillborn son and his mother pass. Justus, a Confederate Major, will die at Vicksburg. The thread that binds this family is a cook, Ida Mae Bell, who offers spiritual guidance and challenges the realities of a privileged southern family. When she joins in a conspiracy to assist Mary Frances’ contact with Cyrus, the sparks fly. Cyrus is wounded by artillery and lies on the battlefield. Stripped of his uniform by a soldier looking for instant promotion, Cyrus is picked up by Union troops detailed to bury victims. Alive, he awakens in a barn, unaware of who he is and where he lives. In a Baltimore hospital, he selects a new name, Austin Boone. Unable to maintain contact, Mary Frances grows up, teaches school, and writes as Felicity Harrison. After twenty years, the plantation business never recovers and she chooses to respond to a marriage solicitation in the newspaper. Of those selected, she finds Boone’s offer interesting enough to travel from Richmond to Los Angeles to see. She discovers that the “crush” of her young years not only travels under a different name, but also has no recollection of her. A romance kindles, but not without difficulty. The confusion over names is just the beginning. And there is the “Witch of Endor.”