A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries letters poems songs newspaper clippings court records marbles rocks dolls and bones.
It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree. Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her she never looks back. Spanning half a century On Agate Hill follows Molly's passionate picaresque journey through love betrayal motherhood a murder trial--and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined.
