This Rolling Land Author:Sandy Dengler Why was she so purely delighted that he had entered her world? — In an age of the decline of the Spanish dons - those elegant lords of central California during the mid-1800s - Felicidad Martines meets an Irish seaman, Seamus Fisher. Though born in different worlds, Felicidad; her father, the don; Seamus, and others in t... more »he grandee's family must come to grips with the dying society as it makes way for a new and more democratic order. It is a last gracious moment in history; the first in a vital new era, in which all must learn the power of sacrificial love.« less