01369cam a2200301 i 4500 285444629 TxAuBib 20170218120000.0 160328s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781616205812 1616205814 TxAuBib rda Rivers, Susan, 1954- The second Mrs. Hockaday / Susan Rivers. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017. 264 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? To what extremes can war and violence push a woman who is left to fend for herself? 20170218. Adultery Fiction. Married women Fiction. Fugitive slaves South Carolina Fiction. South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Historical fiction.