The Promise Barbara Dee Years later a Ficus carica

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives

Their third brother

One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah

A Big Chill for our times

The Promise Barbara Dee Years later a Ficus caricaYoung pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio, in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation, she agrees to marry him, but when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas a thousand miles from home she finds she is little prepared for the life that awaits