Used Paperback: A sweeping, searing novel of the post- Civil War South, HEIR TO FALCONHURST tells the spellbinding story of decline of the notorious slave-breeding plantation, and of it's resurrection at the hands of a man called free, but still enslaved to ancient tradition, a man called black despite the whiteness of his skin, a man who falls desperately in love with the passionate Mustee wife of his sadistic overseer. Historical Fiction Read Full Description.