Somerset

Leila Meacham

One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers Warwicks and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina where Silas Toliver deprived of his inheritance joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the 'black waxy' promise of a new territory called Texas. Slavery westward expansion abolition the Civil War love marriage friendship tragedy and triumph-all the ingredients (and much more) that made so many love Roses so much-are here in abundance.>