After the Fire - Robert Goolrick - book

If you liked Gone with the Wind ...

Diana Cooke was born with the century, but her name goes back much further, to America's founding fathers. Descended from a distinguished lineage, she lives in Saratoga, a magnificent Virginia estate that is the pride of the family. But this house, like its name, is weighed down by two abysmal debts. The first is financial, and the only way to pay it off is through marriage. The second is deeper: the House of Cooke and the prestige of their name are built on the South's darkest sin: slavery. And that debt can only be repaid by a curse. Perhaps it is now approaching in the form of Captain Copperton.
In this splendid novel, Robert Goolrick offers us a fable about love, debt, and the weight of our fathers' sin.

After the fire is followed by an unpublished autobiographical novel, Three Lamentations .