Canaan A Novel Author:Charlie Smith This story is dominated by an enthralling, dangerously unhibited woman of pure ego-Elizabeth Bonnet Burdette, The daughter of a multimillionaire banker from Charleston, Elizabeth has married into a clan which has owned a coffe and tobacco plantation in Georgia for over two hundred years. Her husband rules the business empire, which has expanded ... more »dramatically under his visionary leadership, but he has no control over Elizabeth's reckless lust for experience, her violent determination to be free, to be original, to be daring, no matter what the cost in emotional pain to the man who loves her. It is Elizabeth's mad pursuit of the sensational- her wantonness, her compulsive thrill seeking- that generates the electrifying power of Canaan, charging it with a demonic, spellbinding energy.« less