Deep Summer Author:Gwen Bristow Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Phillip Larner-cavalier and slave smuggler. — The story of Judith and Phillip is one of struggle-the passionate struggle of their stormy marriage, their struggle from j... more »ungle cabin to plantation mansion and the struggle of the revolution.« less