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The Long Black Veil
“Y’all are playing with fire…”
Summer 1963… in the golden days of Camelot, before the engulfing shadow of Vietnam… the last days of innocence. But as rakish Southern drifter Jamie Delacroix discovers, those days were not so idyllic for all.
After a decade alternately spent chasing women and his freedom, Jamie’s luck runs out in a Northern town where a black musician and a twelve-year-old white girl become his unlikely rescuers. Calvin Lewis offers camaraderie that transcends race and social status, as well as financial assistance through his longtime friends Harry and Eve Novotny. The Novotnys’ brilliant but solitary daughter Jane worms her way into Jamie’s life, her crush on the charming older man compelling her to defend Jamie from the local “hussies” — and from himself.
Yet Calvin unwittingly thrusts Jamie into the middle of the secret he carries: his passionate but forbidden love affair with Eve. Against a backdrop of the provincial town’s racial tensions, Jamie struggles to understand the black man’s agonized betrayal of Harry Novotny, and Eve’s apparent willingness to discard her marriage and her child. Jane’s astute yet unwavering innocence has endeared her to Jamie, and he tries to shield the little girl as she wrestles with growing pains and first love.
Summer 1963… in the golden days of Camelot, before the engulfing shadow of Vietnam… the last days of innocence. But as rakish Southern drifter Jamie Delacroix discovers, those days were not so idyllic for all.
After a decade alternately spent chasing women and his freedom, Jamie’s luck runs out in a Northern town where a black musician and a twelve-year-old white girl become his unlikely rescuers. Calvin Lewis offers camaraderie that transcends race and social status, as well as financial assistance through his longtime friends Harry and Eve Novotny. The Novotnys’ brilliant but solitary daughter Jane worms her way into Jamie’s life, her crush on the charming older man compelling her to defend Jamie from the local “hussies” — and from himself.
Yet Calvin unwittingly thrusts Jamie into the middle of the secret he carries: his passionate but forbidden love affair with Eve. Against a backdrop of the provincial town’s racial tensions, Jamie struggles to understand the black man’s agonized betrayal of Harry Novotny, and Eve’s apparent willingness to discard her marriage and her child. Jane’s astute yet unwavering innocence has endeared her to Jamie, and he tries to shield the little girl as she wrestles with growing pains and first love.
But despite his concern for Jane, Jamie’s determination to look out for himself compels his silence. Only Calvin’s arrest for murder finally forces him to act… but having waited so long, Jamie cannot protect them all. As fate forces his hand, Jamie finds his only hope for redemption is to stand up for what he believes — and for the people he has reluctantly come to love.
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