Deep Summer Author:Gwen Bristow Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from new Engand, rode a flatboat down the Mississppi Rier with her family On the rier she met an adventurer, Philip Larne-cavalier and slave smuggler. — The story of Judith and Philip is one of struggle-the passionate struggle of their stormy marriage, their struggle from ju... more »ngle cabin to plantation mansion, and the struggle of revolution. Two abiding passions held them together-their love and their dream of an empire in the Louisiana jungle. When their triumph came it was bitter, menaced always by the hatred of both whites and blacks.« less