Pride, prejudice and cheese grits : Jane Austen takes the South
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Recipes, p. 389 ; Reading group guide, p. 395.

Shelby Roswell, a Civil War historian and professor, is on the fast track to tenure-that is, until her new book is roasted by the famous historian Ransom Fielding in a national review. With her career stalled by a man shes never met, Shelby struggles to maintain her composure when she discovers that Fielding has taken a visiting professorship at her small Southern college. Ransom Fielding is still struggling with his role in his wifes accidental death six years ago and is hoping that a year at Shelbys small college near his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, will be a respite from the pressures of Ivy League academia. When these two hot-headed southerners find themselves fighting over the centuries-old history of local battles and antebellum mansions, their small college is about to become a battlefield of Civil War proportions.