A Waltz in Tennessee

The year is 1930. For the past sixteen years, Annalaura Welles has secreted herself away in a small Illinois own, hiding from the white Tennessee farmer, Alexander McNaughton, who has pledged his love to her. Even in the face of unbending rules of Tennessee Jim Crow, a desperate Alexander still pines for the absent Annalaura and their child, Dolly. Even so, John Welles—the ex-sharecropper husband who deserted Annalaura for a year-long, fortune seeking sojourn in the whorehouses of Nashville—still does not trust the choice his wife made in 1914. Which man does she truly love: John or Alexander? To find his answer, John Welles puts them all at risk. In this second installment of two couples—one black, the other white—who dare to break the rules of 1914 Tennessee, author Francine Thomas Howard continues the saga begun in Page from a Tennessee Journal—the novel U.S.A. Today called, “remarkable…as suspenseful as it is rich in detail.” A Waltz in Tennessee has been called a worthy successor to Page from a Tennessee Journal.